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NVIDIA today released the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, a mid-range graphics card positioned between the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti, which were released earlier this year. The addition of the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is necessitated by changes across the competitive landscape, specifically AMD's announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 series, with which the competitiveness of the original GTX 1660 could buckle. The GTX 1660 SUPER is hence being launched at US$229, just $10 more than what the GTX 1660 commanded at launch and $50 cheaper than the GTX 1660 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has the same exact CUDA core count as the GTX 1660, at 1,408, and is based on the same 12 nm "TU116" silicon. The GPU clock speeds are unchanged, too, with 1530 MHz core and 1785 MHz GPU Boost. The SUPER-charging of this SKU begins with its memory subsystem. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER gets 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps, which is faster than even the 12 Gbps GDDR6 memory found on the GTX 1660 Ti and on par with that of the much pricier RTX 2060 in terms of memory bandwidth—336 GB/s, a massive 75 percent increase over the GTX 1660. With it, NVIDIA hopes to shore up performance by up to 20 percent without touching the CUDA core count and stepping on the toes of the GTX 1660 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 16-series exists to cater to the bulk of the sub-$300 market with solid FPS rates for games at 1080p, including the e-sports crowd. NVIDIA RTX hardware isn't available in this segment as the GPU would be too slow for real-time ray-tracing due to its size. DirectX Raytracing through software is available on all Turing cards, including the GeForce GTX 16, but at lower performance than what the "RTX" cards offer. The GTX 1660 also receives other architectural improvements, such as "Turing" CUDA cores, which offer concurrent integer and floating point execution, adaptive shading, and a unified cache.

In this review, we take a close look at the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMP, the company's premium factory-overclocked graphics card based on this GPU. The card features a compact design that favors broad compatibility and offers overclocked speeds of 1845 MHz GPU Boost. The card is priced at $250, a $20 premium over NVIDIA's MSRP for this SKU.

We are going to run the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 through some benchmarks to see if the removal of RTX features and some compute capacity hurts the card significantly. On the other hand, it carries a lower price than the lowest-end “RTX” card we have reviewed, the ASUS Turbo-RTX2060-6G. If it is close to the same compute performance, it may be a better value.

As we continue to keep our graphics card benchmarks updated we have added the AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition results to several charts. In addition, we added a new benchmark called hashcat64 to test password cracking performance, another common application for GPUs.

Geekbench 4

Geekbench 4 measures the compute performance of your GPU using image processing to computer vision to number crunching.

Zotac GTX 1660 6GB Geekbench

Our first compute benchmark we see the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 shows performance similar to GTX 1080 results which is extremely solid. The GTX 1660 is a lower-cost product.

LuxMark

LuxMark is an OpenCL benchmark tool based on LuxRender.

Zotac GTX 1660 6GB Luxmark

Here we again see performance above that of the GeForce GTX 1080 results. One of the other key themes we will see here and in other tests is that the performance scales well with dollars spent.

AIDA64 GPGPU

These benchmarks are designed to measure GPGPU computing performance via different OpenCL workloads.

• Single-Precision FLOPS: Measures the classic MAD (Multiply-Addition) performance of the GPU, otherwise known as FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations Per Second), with single-precision (32-bit, “float”) floating-point data.
• Double-Precision FLOPS: Measures the classic MAD (Multiply-Addition) performance of the GPU, otherwise known as FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations Per Second), with double-precision (64-bit, “double”) floating-point data.
  Zotac GTX 1660 6GB AIDA64 GPGPU 1

Here, one can see the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 fall between the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and the GTX 1650, right where we would expect.

The next set of benchmarks from AIDA64 are:

• 24-bit Integer IOPS: Measures the classic MAD (Multiply-Addition) performance of the GPU, otherwise known as IOPS (Integer Operations Per Second), with 24-bit integer (“int24”) data. This particular data type defined in OpenCL on the basis that many GPUs are capable of executing int24 operations via their floating-point units.
• 32-bit Integer IOPS: Measures the classic MAD (Multiply-Addition) performance of the GPU, otherwise known as IOPS (Integer Operations Per Second), with 32-bit integer (“int”) data.
• 64-bit Integer IOPS: Measures the classic MAD (Multiply-Addition) performance of the GPU, otherwise known as IOPS (Integer Operations Per Second), with 64-bit integer (“long”) data. Most GPUs do not have dedicated execution resources for 64-bit integer operations, so instead, they emulate the 64-bit integer operations via existing 32-bit integer execution units.
  Zotac GTX 1660 6GB AIDA64 GPGPU 2

The take away here is the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 performs at rates above GTX 1080 Ti and just below the GTX 1660 Ti OC. This is an extremely impressive result.

hashcat64

hashcat64 is a password cracking benchmarks that can run an impressive number of different algorithms. We used the windows version and a simple command of hashcat64 -b. Out of these results we used five results to the graph. Users who are interested in hashcat can learn more here.

Zotac GTX 1660 6GB Hashcat64

Hashcat64 is a demanding benchmark which heats up GPU’s, here we see the GTX 1660 fall were we would expect it to, between the GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1650. If you want to see higher-end hardware examples, check out 1U of Password Cracking Fury: 4x NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti in 1U Performance which we did years ago.

SPECviewperf 13

SPECviewperf 13 measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and DirectX application programming interfaces.

Zotac GTX 1660 6GB SPECviewperf 1Zotac GTX 1660 6GB SPECviewperf 2

Again we see the Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 fall were we would expect to see it on our charts. One can also see that there is great performance uplift over the GeForce GTX 1650.

SPECworkstation 3

SPECworkstation3 measures the 3D graphics performance of systems running under the OpenGL and Direct X application programming interfaces.

Zotac GTX 1660 6GB SPECworkstation GPU

This is more of the same. There is a fairly enormous delta between the GTX cards and the first generation of RTX cards here.

How much does a Zotac GTX 1660 cost?

The card is priced at $250, a $20 premium over NVIDIA's MSRP for this SKU. ZOTAC brings us a practical GeForce GTX 1660 Super graphics card that comes with a factory overclock and just enough features to get your gaming rig up and going without it breaking the bank - the price increase over MSRP is $20.

Is the GeForce GTX 1660 Super CUDA based?

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has the same exact CUDA core count as the GTX 1660, at 1,408, and is based on the same 12 nm "TU116" silicon. The GPU clock speeds are unchanged, too, with 1530 MHz core and 1785 MHz GPU Boost. The SUPER-charging of this SKU begins with its memory subsystem.

Does GTX 1660 support ray tracing?

The GTX 1660 is based on the Turing architecture and uses a variant of the TU116 silicon found in the GTX 1660 and 1660 Ti, just like the 1660 Super. As with other GTX-branded cards, there’s no RTX support here for ray tracing.

What is the difference between a 4GB and 6GB GTX 1660?

Where some 4GB cards will choke when running out memory, 6GB cards have 50% more VRAM to store textures and other bits without swapping out to slower storage off the card. The Zotac GTX 1660 comes with a 1,530 MHz base clock and 2,001 MHz (8,004 MHZ effective) memory clock.

Is Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 good for gaming?

The Bottom Line. If you've been holding off on a mainstream video card for 1080p gaming, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super could be your trigger to buy: It's a solid-playing, popularly priced waypoint between the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti.

Is GTX 1660 good for gaming?

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 1660 is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p. Capable of running games with up to a DirectX 12 requirement.

Is GTX 1660 still good today?

Yes, the GTX 1660 Ti is still a capable graphics card for 1080p gaming. While it may not offer the highest settings or achieve ultra-high frame rates in the most demanding games, it can handle most modern titles at 1080p resolution with good performance.

Is GTX 1660 low end?

A GTX 1660 super is an mid level card that barely reaches the bottom of high.