Pny Geforce® Gtx 1660 Super 6gb Single Fan
So it will be interesting to see what NVIDIA actual does here, both in terms of card supply and pricing. The GTX 1660 has to come down in price to have any future; and if that were to happen, then it might make for a decent sub-$200 spoiler. w/8Gbps GDDR5$219The wildcard factor here, as is often the case, is AMD. The company has already announced some of its RX 5500 product family. However it’s not clear just what to expect from the cards in terms of performance, especially as AMD has been framing it relative to NVIDIA’s lower-end GTX 1650.
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. 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. Nvidia swapped out the slower GDDR5 memory of the original GTX 1660 for cutting-edge GDDR6 VRAM in the new gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb, and oh, what a difference it makes. In our testing across a variety of games, the upgraded memory pushes the new card well beyond the original GTX 1660’s performance and closer to the frame rates pumped out by the $280 GTX 1660 Ti.
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.
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.
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 gtx 1080 8gb 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.
Overall the Super card is between 10 and 13 percent faster than the regular 1660 at 1080p resolution in the games I tested. That’s not too shabby and certainly warrants the “super” moniker as it’s not some measly five percent bump. At 1440p the uplift is largely the same aside from The Witcher 3, which saw a 24 percent bump in performance. In the rest of the titles, performance fell between 10 and 12 percent overall. Though it’s “made for 1080p gaming” it’s also pretty good at 1440p, hitting 60fps in most titles at max settings.
First up is the $229 GTX 1660 Super , which sits right between the vanilla 1660 and the Ti version, both in performance and price. In a few weeks the GTX 1650 Super will also release, though, pricing has yet to be announced but it will likely be around $179 or so. The EVGA GTX 1660 Super SC we have for review sports a 1,530 MHz base clock and 1,750 MHz memory clock. EVGA lists the boost clock at 1,830 MHz, which is 45 Mhz above the reference clock speed of 1,785 MHz. The bumped-up specifications on the 1660 Super yield a small TDP increase from 120W to 125W. Most card partners recommend this card be partnered with a 500W or greater power supply.