The Nvidia Geforce Gtx 1660 Super Review, Feat Evga Sc Ultra
The gtx 1090 Ti performed excellently and was well ahead of the RX 590, leaving the GTX 1660 snapping at the AMD card’s heels. Still a popular free-to-play MMO, World of Tanks isn’t particularly taxing, but you still see big increases in frame rates with the new Core graphics engine as you rise up the GPU scale. At 1,920 x 1,080, the GTX 1060 has the measure of the RX 590 and adds 14% to the minimum and 10% to the average frame rates of the GTX GB. Clearly not a worthwhile upgrade – you’d need to step up to the GTX 1660 Ti for that. At 1440p, the GTX 1660 switched places with the RX 590, but was still getting on for 10% quicker than the GTX GB in maintaining a minimum frame rate of 67fps.
We mentioned this a couple of times before, but initially, when the first rumors on the GeForce GTX surfaced, speculation was everywhere and we had doubts NVIDIA would actually release a new GTX while moving forward towards it’s RTX branding. But yes, NVIDIA is now injecting a Turing based GPU into the mainstream called TU116. To make it more affordable NVIDIA stripped away the RTX and DLSS features, that means there are no RT and Tensor cores on this GPU.
When NVIDIA went about cutting down the GTX 1660 Ti to create the original GTX 1660, the single biggest change there was swapping out GDDR6 for cheaper GDDR5. Now that they’ve effectively undone this – and then some – most of the performance that NVIDIA shaved off for the GTX 1660 has come back in the lower-priced Super card. Overall, the RTX 2060 is the best buy of the three because of its impressive performance capabilities.
Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in range. Get involved in the conversation by heading over to our Facebook and Instagram pages. To stay up to date with the latest PC gaming guides, news, and reviews, follow PCGamesN on Twitter and Steam News Hub. That’s the card responsible for Nvidia having to cut close to the Ti bone in terms of the GTX 1660’s specifications, and it’s actually a rather close-fought battle between the two.
Solid performance gains can also be seen when testing with Sniper Elite 4, the 1660 Super was 14% faster than the base model and just 4% slower than the Ti model, so another excellent result. Nvidia did claim up to 20% performance gains and we have our first example of that here with Monster Hunter World. The 1660 Super was good for 67 fps on average and that makes it 20% faster than the standard 1660 and just 7% slower than the 1660 Ti. We see another solid performance uplift, this time when testing with Battlefield V. A 13% increase over the base model is the best result we’ve seen yet.
It’s the kind of quality product you’ll have to pay a pretty penny for, and we know that it might be out of your reach if you’re on a modest budget. It still blows the Turing product competition out of the water and provides far better value for the price. Over time, it’s worth the investment for the RTX 2060 — even if you have gtx 1090 to spend some time saving up to buy it. There are tons to choose from when it comes to all of these Turing cards, offering different clock speeds, cooling options, and lighting features. Some are a better value than others, but the cheapest offer the best return on investment in terms of performance, as we’ll see below.
The Super is typically within only a few frames per second of the 1660 Ti, making it arguably the most competitive buy among the 1660s. Components that offer the best value for money have great performance and a low price . The smaller the overlap between the yellow and green bars, the better the value for money. Each memory controller is associated with eight ROPs and a 256KB slice of L2 cache. GeForce GTX 1660’s ROP count compares favorably to RTX 2060, which also utilizes 48 render outputs. Six 32-bit memory controllers give TU116 an aggregate 192-bit bus, which is populated by 8 Gb/s GDDR5 modules that push up to 192 GB/s.
Way back in February we got the first GTX 1660 series GPU, the $280 Ti model. In our launch-day review we concluded it was the first GPU release in some time that we’d come away feeling completely pleased. The 1660 Ti offered GTX 1070-like performance for a slight price premium over the GTX GB. Without any competition from AMD it was a pretty good result. Gigabyte goosed the boost clock for the GPU to 1,860MHz – the reference spec calls for 1,785MHz. Both the Gigabyte and ASUS cards we’ll be featuring here stick to NVIDIA’s spec for their memory, but push the GPU base and boost clocks upward to further improve performance.
For overclocking, I set the core voltage slider to +100 in MSI Afterburner, increased the power limit to 111 percent, and increased the fan speed to 75 percent. Then I looped the 3DMark Time Spy stress test while I tweaked the VRAM and core clocks. Frankly, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super is one hell of a graphics card, especially compared to its counterparts. In Time Spy, the GTX 1660 Super was about 5% slower than the GTX 1660 Ti that costs significantly more, and was a whopping 14% faster than the GTX 1660 that it essentially replaces. In Fire Strike, the difference was even more narrow – its just 2% slower than the GTX 1660 Ti.
Powered by the revolutionary NVIDIA Turing architecture and next-gen GDDR6 memory, visuals will have unprecedented realism and graphics settings can be set to drive the most impactful actions. Everything is super with the all-new ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 20 Series SUPER graphics cards. Based on the NVIDIA Turing architecture, it’s packed with more cores and ultra-fast GDDR6 memory. Integrated with more smart and optimized technologies, get ready to GET FAST and GAME STRONG. There’s one more thing to cover before we begin a more detailed performance analysis. There is a reference specification for the GTX 1660 Ti, but there are no reference cards, so you should expect a small degree of variance in frame-rate between different models as board manufacturers add their own factory overclocks.