Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER OC 6G

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For our benchmark results we wanted to focus some of our efforts on the esports aspect of the GTX 1660 Super's abilities, as much of the press from Nvidia has centered around its ability to push 1080p multiplayer games to their highest-possible frame rates. We weren't all that fond of the RTX 3050 when it launched, and compared to the other lower-end Nvidia Ampere cards, it's not one that we'd recommend. Right out of the gate, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super performed right in line with what we would expect out of this card: about 15 percent faster than the original GTX 1660 (which we reviewed in Gigabyte trim), but still 5 percent slower than the GTX 1660 Ti.

The faster GDDR6 memory didn't provide the newcomer with any victories, but considering it has a 9 percent deficit in GPU cores that's to be expected. In testing Far Cry 5 both in and out of the overclock, I saw a performance boost of just over 9 percent in 1440p and 1080p testing, while the benchmarking tool 3DMark saw gains ever-so-slightly lower, at 8.Though the numbers tell one story, while actually watching the benchmark of Shadow of the Tomb Raider run, I saw it do well in some scenes (right in line with expectations), but then slow to a crawl in others, bringing the average down. Performance and stress tests are run with the latest chart-topping titles like Fortnite, League of Legends, Overwatch, and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Sorry VirtualLink hopefuls; you'll have to connect your VR headset the old-fashioned way on this one.

We also ran it through our standard video-card benchmarks, which test a card's abilities to handle AAA games at the highest possible quality settings. GeForce ® GTX® 16 SUPER Series features a dedicated hardware encoder that unlocks the ability to game and stream simultaneously with superior quality. If you already have a GTX 1070, 1070 Ti, or 1080, you're not going to want to bother downgrading to the 1660 Super.

In this test the GTX 1660 Super's boosted memory clock and upgrade to GDDR6 really got a chance to shine, showing just how substantially better it is than the GDDR5 in the GTX 1660, but also coming in shy of what we saw from the GTX 1660 Ti. To match the value of the RX 590, the new GTX 1660 Super may need to deliver 1660 Ti-like performance. Skill memory and SSD storage to ensure the GPU is the limiting factor in performance (as much as possible). NVIDIA has paired 6 GB GDDR6 memory with the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, which are connected using a 192-bit memory interface.