Gigabyte Geforce Rtx 2060 Super
If you’re buying a new graphics card today, you should almost definitely get the GTX over the 6GB GTX 1060 .When I bumped the resolution up to 2560×1440, however, something quite strange happened. Testing with The Division 2 sees the 1660 Super land right between the base model 1660 and the Ti version. That means with 74 fps on average the faster memory resulted in a 9% performance uplift.
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.
In the 13 months going back to the initial launch of the Turing architecture and the GeForce RTX 20 series of cards, NVIDIA has now launched 12 different GeForce SKUs. And even if we toss out the RTX 2080 and RTX 2070, which were formally discontinued but still sit on some store shelves, NVIDIA’s current product stack is still 10 cards deep. Instead, what has changed is the memory support, and this is where the vast majority of gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb Super’s performance gains lie. Whereas the original GTX 1660 shipped with 8Gbps GDDR5 as both a means to cut costs and differentiate/segment the card from the full-fledged GTX 1660 Ti, GTX 1660 Super gets all the memory bandwidth it can handle. NVIDIA has given it 6GB of 14Gbps GDDR6, the fastest grade of memory they currently have available.
The GTX 1660 does best when prices are kept closer to $200 than $250—because at $250, you’re probably better off just moving up to a GTX 1660 Ti. But, really, at the end of the day you can’t expect a graphics card in this weight class to compete with graphics cards that cost twice as much. The GTX 1660 doesn’t have RT cores, nor does the GTX 1660 Ti, so it only makes sense for the GTX 1660 Super to be limited here. GeForce GTX® 1660 SUPER™ features a dedicated hardware encoder that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality. SUPER graphics cards are optimized for your favorite streaming apps to provide maximum performance for your live stream. GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 1660’s features a dedicated hardware encoders that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality.
At the end of the day, 1080p is the most popular resolution for PC gaming, and graphics cards in this price range are where most people will end up spending their money. And, until the AMD Radeon RX 5500 comes out in November, Nvidia is kind of dominating this part of the landscape, and it’s not hard to see why. The Nvidia GeForce gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb Super stands somewhere between the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti in terms of performance and price. Considering what it offers in terms of overall value, it might just be the best graphics card for you.
It’s not going to bring home any pink slips in a race, but if all you’re looking for is a good 1080p gaming experience, this will do. The gtx 1080 8gb takes over for Nvidia as the new “sweet spot” for mainstream GPUs. Nvidia told me that’s also why the cards use GDDR5—supply and pricing on GDDR5X and GDDR6 apparently “wasn’t enough” to meet the expected demand.