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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. While the GTX 1660 is a solid choice, we wouldn’t put it at the top of our list. We think that for the same price, the AMD offers superior performance. That said, the GTX 1660 has vastly improved from the previous GTX 1060 model.
But it also needs to still be faster than the RX 590 and the RX 580 from AMD, while not costing as much as either. Best-in-class performance with the advanced graphics capabilities of the award-winning NVIDIA® Turing™ architecture. My runs at +150 clock and +500 memory in Afterburner and doesn’t go above +42°C above ambient. Each card must meet rigorous performance and reliability standards before it ships. Performance and stress tests are run with the latest chart-topping titles like Fortnite, League of Legends, Overwatch, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
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.
Getting more performance at a lower price is great, but with graphics cards there’s always a problem of competing with the previous generation. The gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb will be faster than the GTX GB—it has some architectural enhancements, higher clockspeeds, and more shader cores—but it’s not going to be a massive upgrade. That’s why I generally recommend trying to skip a generation or two of hardware between upgrades, especially for budget and mainstream gamers, which means the GTX 1660 is better positioned as a replacement for an old GTX 960 or earlier GPU. If you’re using such a card, the 1660 is a great upgrade, while anyone with a GTX 970 or better will probably want to wait a bit longer . And, it’s also important to note that this GPU doesn’t have the RT and Tensor cores that the RTX 20-series of Turing graphics cards have. This means that while you can technically enable ray tracing, it’s going to turn whatever game you try to enable it on into a slideshow – more so than it does on any other graphics card.
Nvidia announced its new gtx 1080 8gb 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.
Get 1.4X power efficiency over previous generation for a faster, cooler and quieter gaming experience that take advantage of Turing’s advanced graphics features. Obviously, MSI will offer several SKUs, gtx 1090 in the above table you can see the naming, cooling option and listed Boost clocks for your reference. Having smaller TU116 silicon with close to 6.6 Billion transistors it doesn’t run very warm.