Gigabyte Gtx 1660 Review
Once again, there’s a huge near 30% step up from the GTX GB, meaning that you’d probably consider the new card a worthwhile upgrade. Individual results will vary from that a bit, but it’s a reasonable baseline estimate. There will likely be factory overclocked models that will run about 5 percent faster on the core clock, and the better models will hit slightly higher speeds, but I wouldn’t recommend spending too much extra for such a card.
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The GPU has been cut-down, the available memory configurations will be 6GB GDDR6 for the Ti models and 3 or 6GB GDDR5 for the non-Ti models. Our tested card has been fitted with 6GB of GDDR5 memory running a 192-bit wide bus. It has a proper boost clock and there will be no differentiation for the reference values compared to the AIB partners. Enhance your gaming experience by adding the ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb Super OC graphics card to your PC. Featuring 6GB of DDR6 video memory and 14,000MHz clock speed, it provides smooth and reliable performance for your favourite games. Its protective backplate resists PVC flex so that the components are undisturbed during transport and setup.
Priced at £259/$279, GTX 1660 Ti is a direct replacement for GTX 1060, delivering a substantial increase in gaming frame-rates, often exceeding the power of the outgoing GTX 1070. The GTX 1660 still came out as the faster card every time, but the improvements offered were arguably so small that you probably wouldn’t notice them without the aid of a frame rate counter. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super is based on the same TU116 GPU as both the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti, but has the same 1,408 CUDA cores as the original 1660. The big difference over the original graphics card is the bump up to GDDR6 video memory, resulting in a boost in memory speed from 8Gbps to 14Gbps – that’s just as fast as the VRAM in the massively powerful RTX 2080 Ti.
Here you can see the user rating of the graphics card, as well as rate it yourself. This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 , and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities. But for this nominally cheaper Nvidia card its current gaming performance makes it a far more worthy purchase than the RX 590 for a gamer on a budget. There is, however, still the point that the RX 580 isn’t thatfar off the performance of either the RX 590 or GTX 1660, and just about undercuts both cards in terms of its pricing. I would say that this Gigabyte GTX 1660 card is quite heavily overclocked compared with the reference clocked GPUs, despite it sharing the same MSRP at launch.
4k ultra meanwhile is basically out of the question, with Forza Horizon 4 being the best result at 45fps. Battlefield 5 and Strange Brigade land right near 30fps, and everything else is in the 20s or lower. The 6GB VRAM also becomes an issue with 4k ultra, and several games are clearly running out of VRAM and being forced to swap data out to system RAM.
Nvidia announced its new gtx 1090 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.
Finally, if you do pick this graphics card up, you will need external power to make it run, in this case an 8-pin PCIe power connector. This means that the GTX 1660 Super does draw 127.4W alone in the most taxing situations, so you should make sure you have at least a 500W power supply. One thing you should be aware of is that the ports are a bit limited on the GeForce GTX 1660 Super. We tested the EVGA GTX 1660 Super SC Ultra, and it’s limited to DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. This isn’t exactly a graphics card that you’re going to run 10 displays off of, but we would have liked to see Nvidia drop the DVI port and add in either a second HDMI or maybe even a USB-C port.
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I saw a similar 10fps boost in Shadow of the Tomb Raider as well, with the managing an average of 51fps on Highest with its less demanding SMAA anti-aliasing enabled over the GTX 1060’s 40fps. When we first saw the specifications for the GTX 1660 Super, we didn’t know what to make of it. The 75% increase in memory bandwidth is huge, but ultimately if the GPU wasn’t memory starved to begin with, that would just end up being a big number on paper that wouldn’t translate into meaningful gains in the real world. Kingdom Come Deliverance has the 1660 Super performing very well again, beating the base model by a 9% margin to come in just 3 fps behind the 1660 Ti. That was until later in the year when the Radeon RX 590 dropped from around $300 to nearly $200. By slashing prices AMD has managed to remain relevant in the budget and mainstream GPU market with their older RX 500 series GPUs, and in fact managed to become the go to option below $200.