Galax Geforce® Gtx 1660 Super
Here are the gaming performance results for the EVGA GTX 1660 Super SC Ultra. Most of the other cards are reference clocked models, though the RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti are Founders Edition cards that also have a 90MHz factory overclock. AMD’s RX 590, 580, and 570 cards are likewise factory overclocked models, but I don’t normally consider differences of less than 5 percent to be particularly meaningful when comparing performance. There’s a reason for these new GTX Super cards, of course, and that reason is AMD. Specifically, AMD recently launched the OEM version of the Radeon RX 5500, and consumer models are expected to arrive shortly.
Keeping V-Sync and NULL active with G-Sync disabled is still faster, but you’ll still get that nasty screen tearing. Here you can see the user rating of the graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself. We selected several comparisons of video cards with performance more or less close to those reviewed, providing you with more probable options to consider. Both graphics cards satisfy the 100% minimum and 98% recommended requirements of all games known to us. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava.
Nvidia says it’ll reveal that information closer to the card’s November 22 launch. It’s probably playing coy to give the company room to counter-punch potential AMD pricing shenanigans around the Radeon RX 5500 series, after the “jebaited” controversy around the Radeon RX 5700 series release. NvidiaSlotting in below that will be the new GeForce GTX 1650 Super, which will receive a more substantial overhaul when it launches November 22.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a TH graphics card review that had so few cards being compared. We capture our fps and frame time information with OCAT, and easy-to-use front end for Presentmon, during our benchmarks. We use GPU-Z to capture clock frequencies, fan speed, temperature, and power. We’ll resume using the Powenetics power testing system used in previous reviews soon. The gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb sits on a 192-bit bus fed by six 32-bit memory controllers. The Super’s GDDR6 video memory is the main differentiator between it and the original GTX 1660 that uses GDDR5.
Here’s a quick look at total system consumption and as you can see the 1660 Super sucks down a little more power than even the Ti model. Clearly that higher clocked GDDR6 memory is power hungry and here we see an increase on total system draw by 9% over the standard 1660. 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. First up we have Shadow of the Tomb Raider and here the new 1660 Super was 4% faster than the base model. Not exactly an exciting result but it was significantly faster than the RX 590, so there’s that.
The PCB used on this card is longer than the ASUS offering, as you’ll see in a moment, but the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC is thinner. This card requires only two slots, while the ASUS card is 2.7 slots wide. Meanwhile, as I mentioned towards the start of this article, while NVIDIA is launching the new GTX 1660 Super card today, they are not going to be retiring any of their other cards in its wake. So, on paper, the GTX 1660 Super is going to be positioned very narrowly between the GTX 1660 Ti and the GTX 1660 . Components that offer the best value for money have great performance and a low price .
That ‘slash’ between the logos and branding on the top of the card lights up and can be customized via Asus’ included software. The heatsink underneath those fans is outfitted with a pair of copper heat-pipes, sandwiched between a large array of aluminum thin-fins. Those heat-pipes are flattened in the base and make direct contact with the GPU as well; ASUS calls this feature ‘DirectCU II’. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC looks much like a handful of other GPUs from the company that feature the Windforce 3X cooler design, but with a customized PCB for the TU116.
Looking at these figures the performance gain from buying the € 299,00 GTX 1660 Ti over the GTX 1660 Super is minimal. Below the benchmarks of Hardware.info confirm the minimal differences. Overall the GTX 1660 Ti remains faster than the GTX 1660 Super but with a very small margin. Senior editor Brad Chacos covers gaming and graphics for PCWorld, and runs the morning news desk for PCWorld, Macworld, Greenbot, and TechHive. NvidiaFinally, Nvidia’s own hardware-infused G-Sync monitors will now behave better when you’re gaming at screaming-fast speeds over your monitor’s native refresh rate, in an effort to counter-punchAMD’s Radeon Anti-Lag.
If you have any questions please feel free and just a phone call or email. The thing is though, I don’t care much for the whole ray-tracing thing, and even though the RTX 2060 CAN do it, doing so leads to a big performance hit. What I’m more interested in is the extra 2GBs of RAM the 2060 Super offers over the non-Super and the two GTX cards I’m also looking at. Aside from competitors within AMD’s own ranks, a likely alternative is Intel’s Core i5-9600K, at least until cheaper 9th generation CPUs appear.
The factory-overclocked EVGA gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb SC Ultra brings performance close to the more-expensive GTX 1660 Ti, while the cooling solution allows for quiet operation while gaming. Nvidia’s new Super card soars close to the performance of the GTX 1660 Ti. If you want to know about the inner workings of CPUs, GPUs, or SSDs, he’s your man. He subsists off a steady diet of crunchy silicon chips and may actually be a robot. I have to admit, when rumors started circulating several months back of a ‘Super’ refresh of the 1660 and 1650, I thought they were bunk.