Geforce Gtx 1660 Super Review
Beyond that, I really like the dinky form factor, ensuring it’s an easy fit in most PC cases. Overall the Asus TUF card performed well, but as you can see in the benchmarks at this price you’d be really better off just getting the Ti version since it performs quite a bit better for not much more cash. For example you can get a GTX 1660 Ti for about $260, which is only $25 more than this Asus variant, making it a tough sell. Now if the Asus card was at MSRP of $219, then the stretch to $260 is quite a big longer, making it more of a matter of your budget determining which card to buy.
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920×1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware. GeForce GTX 1660’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1660’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
Nvidia announced its new gtx 1080 8gb graphics card today, driving the cost down even further for those looking for an affordable GPU. This model starts at $219 / £199, and it will be released on March 14th from Nvidia’s partners, including EVGA, Asus, and more. As the new GTX 1660 Super cards are a mid-generation kicker of a mainstream card, there aren’t any reference cards to speak of here.
This gives the GTX 1660 Super 336GB/sec of memory bandwidth, 75% more bandwidth than the original GTX 1660, or as much as the RTX 2060. And this extensive amount of bandwidth is almost entirely responsible for the 12% performance gains we see over the original card. Far Cry 5 was tiny bit slower on the Scan PC than on my own test system, but only by a couple of frames per second, with the Pc maintaining a minimum frame rate of at least 67fps, with clear scope for gaming at higher resolutions. There was between 10-15% between the GTX 1660 and GTX GB too – again Nvidia was right on the money here. Both the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 1660 use Nvidia’s TU166 Turing GPU, with the caveat that it doesn’t support RTX features such as DLSS and ray tracing like the RTX 2060. Despite its smaller transistors, TU116 is 42 percent larger than the GP106 processor that preceded it.
Based on the specifications alone we can surmise that the most powerful of the three cards is the RTX 2060, followed by the GTX 1660 Ti, then GTX 1660 Super, with the GTX 1660 trailing in the rear. While clock speeds are relatively comparable across all four cards (and actually a little higher on the lower-end cards), the drop in CUDA cores from the RTX 2060 to the 1660 Ti is the main differentiating factor in performance. While the 1660 does take a step down in CUDA cores too, its use of GDDR5 memory leads to a 33 percent reduction in memory bandwidth. What we have in the GTX 1660 is a very welcome, if somewhat predictable graphics card which slots in almost perfectly in amongst other mid-range cards out there.
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During our testing, we accidentally left ray tracing on in Metro Exodus, and even the menu was nigh-unusable. Get 1.4X power efficiency over previous generation for a faster, cooler, and quieter gaming experience. Nvidia’s Turing roll-out continues with the arrival of its first sub-£300/$300 graphics card – the GeForce gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb Ti. And yes, that’s GTX rather than RTX with Team Green opting to remove hardware-accelerated ray tracing and machine learning features from its cheaper range of GPUs. It is still Turing, however, using the same revised shader modules offering enhanced performance and increased power efficiency.
Until then, however, the value proposition offered by the RX 590 is almost too good to pass up. In terms of raw speed, the GTX 1660 is a really tough act to beat at this price, and definitely the card you should buy instead of the 6GB GTX 1060 if you’re after 60fps on High-Ultra settings at 1080p and Medium-High at 1440p. Still, regardless of how small the performance boost actually is in practice, the fact remains that, at 1080p, the GTX 1660 is still the faster card overall. I’d be tempted to err on the side of the GTX 1060 if the GTX 1660 was more expensive, but when both cards cost the same amount of money, it just doesn’t make any sense to opt for the 6GB GTX 1060 any more. Now, in case you’re looking at the GTX 1660’s name and thinking, ‘Hold on a sec, what the heck is that all about? ‘, here’s a brief reminder about what Nvidia’s new GTX 16-series actually is and how it differs to their RTX 20-series.
Nvidia’s claimed boost over the GTX GB was spot on here with a 15% advantage in minimum frame rate courtesy of the . Stepping up to 2,560 x 1,440 and there’s very little difference between the RX 590 and GTX 1660, with just a small bump in the minimum frame rate for the Nvidia card. A minimum frame rate of 37fps is a great result here given this is a mid-range resolution at some fairly high settings in this game, although I’d be tempted to opt for the GTX 1660 Ti for a little more headroom.
Yes, it’s still the 12nm TU116 graphics silicon, but Nvidia has cut out a pair of streaming multiprocessors from the package to take it from 24 SMs down to 22 SMs. That means the CUDA core count has dropped from 1,536 to 1,408… which isn’t actually all that much. In fact with a drop of just 8% in CUDA core count that makes it the smallest slice Nvidia has ever removed to make the non-Ti version of a GPU. Because of the pricing spread between the first 16-series card and the top two AMD Polaris GPUs, picking the exact specs of the non-Ti version of the GTX 1660 must have felt a little like trying to nail a loose bowel movement to the wall. On the one hand the GTX 1660 cannot be specced out to cannibalise the 1660 Ti, and that means it has to be tangibly slower than its slightly older sibling.