Evga Geforce Gtx 1660 Super Sc Ultra Gaming Graphics Card, 06g
Ultimately the is exactly what it needs to be – much quicker than the GTX GB, a match for the RX 590 and a huge step up from the GTX GB, which unless you’re picking it up for less than $160/£150, really isn’t worth it now. There is also the issue that pricing for all versions of the GTX 1060 is obviously lower than at launch now and I’ve added some of the cheaper examples to the above table. The GTX GB can be had for just $184/£164 and the 6GB card for $209/£190, the latter being practically the same as the GTX 1660. Board partners will undoubtedly target a range of frequencies to differentiate their cards. However, the official base clock rate is 1,530 MHz with a GPU Boost specification of 1,785 MHz.
By delivering performance more in line with GTX 1070, it does deliver value and isn’t a million miles away from the throughput delivered by a stock RX Vega 56. The gtx 1090 is also a very modest upgrade over the Pascal-flavored GTX 1660. Nobody in their right mind would upgrade one generation x60 card to the next, but if you’ve got a GTX 960 or older and are on a budget, the GTX 1660 will be a good upgrade if you’re still at 1080p and limited to around $220 or so. As far as the board itself goes, it’s eight inches long so it’ll fit in most cases quite easily. It features a metal backplate as part of its TUF design, and has a two-fan cooling apparatus. Asus recommends a 450w PSU for it, and its output options include HDMI, DisplayPort, and DVI.
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.
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 GTX 1660 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.
Before we get to the cards though, we should talk about some new features NVIDIA is enabling as well. According to NVIDIA’s reference specifications, the GeForce gtx 1090 Super is somewhat of a cross of a standard GTX 1660 and a 1660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super has a similar number of CUDA cores and texture units to the GTX 1660, but with GDDR6 memory like the Ti. Note, however, that the GeForce GTX 1660 Super has higher GPU and memory frequencies than the 1660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 1600 Super is also outfitted with faster 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory, which results in 336GB/sec of peak bandwidth versus the GTX 1660’s 192GB/sec and the 1660 Ti’s 288.1GB/s.
The Nvidia Super series has been kind of hit and miss – with the RTX 2080 being a notable flop – but we can’t recommend the GTX 1660 Super enough. GTX 1660 Ti and 1660’s dedicated hardware encoders deliver 15% improved efficiency over prior generation graphics cards and are optimized for Open Broadcaster Software . Intro The GeForce RTX 2060 Super comes with core clock speeds of 1470 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2176 SPUs along with 136 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs. Almost all vendors offer similar performance card, I picked the Asus ones because of the vendor’s reputation and also the fact that there are two fans instead of just one. I think thermal performance is a great indicator of graphics performance, so it’s important to pick a card that has fans that hopefully can dissipate heat quickly.
As a result, the media have mainly compared it to AMD’s Radeon RX 500 series of GPUs. Tried and true x86 architecture based servers with support for the latest Intel and AMD processors. Finally, the competitive situation for the GTX 1660 Super is a mixed bag. AMD is still doing what they can, and in this case is pitching the Radeon RX 590 as their closest GTX 1660 Super competitor. The admittedly awkward, late-cycle Polaris card was originally created to beat GTX GB on performance , which it certainly did.
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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