Upgraders however will likely end up being a bit more discerning; Turing isn’t a whole generation ahead of the Pascal-based GTX 10 series cards with respect to performance, and the GTX 1660 Super doesn’t change this. So while it’s around 35-40% faster than a GTX GB, GTX 1660 Super is going to be much more enticing to GTX 960 owners and the like, where the new card delivers more than twice the performance. To be fair to NVIDIA, some of this is because the GeForce product stack goes higher in price than before, especially with the $1100 RTX 2080 Ti. Still, NVIDIA has launched more cards at a faster pace than at any point in the past half-decade. The Super cards in particular have added significantly to this count, with NVIDIA shipping what amounts to a mid-generation refresh for their lineup not even a year into its launch.
Looking to fill in the mainstream portion of the market, AMD is already shipping its Radeon RX 5500 series cards to OEMs – with retail to follow shortly – and meanwhile NVIDIA is making its own machinations for the market. At 1,920 x 1,080, the GTX 1660 was a huge amount faster than the GTX GB, offering a near 30% speed boost to the minimum frame rate. While there was a big step up on the minimum from the RX 590, the latter was only 2fps behind on the average frame rate. Given the price difference between it and the GTX 1660 Ti, the pricing here is pretty much spot on too, with the more expensive Turing card adding around 15% on top of the GTX 1660’s performance. Combine the performance with the price, and you end up with a nice mainstream graphics card.
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. The gtx1080 price 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. With 50 percent more transistors than GP106 but only 20 percent more CUDA cores, we also get some idea of how many changes went into the Turing architecture. Also note that some of the extra transistors are likely there for GDDR6 memory support. While both the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti have 6GB VRAM, GDDR5 and GDDR6 are not pin compatible, which means the memory controller needs to support both.
This video card matches 100% minimum and 98% recommended requirements of all games known to us. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance.
It’s effectively offering a similar price point for similar levels of gaming performance compared with the cards we have now. Where it has been able to make a big change, however, is in the memory design of the lower-caste GPU. Instead of the GDDR6 memory used throughout the rest of the Turing graphics card range, nvidia1080 Nvidia has switched back to GDDR5 for the bottom rungs of the 16-series ladder. That means a switch from 12Gbps to 8Gbps, and a 33% drop in memory bandwidth, from 288.1GB/s to 192.1GB/s. This graphics card supports NVIDIA® G-SYNC™ display technology for a super-smooth variable refresh rate experience.