Wednesday, September 25th 2019
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super Releases on Oct 29nd
Chinese website ITHome has new info on the release of NVIDA's GeForce GTX 1660 Super graphics cards. According to their website, the release is expected for October 22nd, which seems credible, considering NVIDIA always launches on a Tuesday. As expected, the card will be built around the Turing TU116 graphics processor, which also powers the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti. Shader counts should either be 1472, because NVIDIA wants to position their card between GTX 1660 (1408 cores) and GTX 1660 Ti (1536 cores). The memory size will be either 4 GB or 6 GB. Specifications of the memory are somewhat vague, it is rumored that NVIDIA's GTX 1660 Super will use GDDR6 chips, just like GTX 1660 Ti — the plain GTX 1660 uses GDDR5 memory. Another possibility is that shader count matches GTX 1660, and the only difference (other than clock speeds) is that GTX 1660 Super uses GDDR6 VRAM.
The Chinese pricing is expected around 1100 Yuan, which converts to $150 — surprisingly low, considering GTX 1660 retails at $210 and GTX 1660 Ti is priced at $275. Maybe NVIDIA is adjusting their pricing to preempt AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 5500/5600 Series. Videocardz has separately confirmed this rumor with their sources at ASUS Taiwan, who are expected to launch at least three SKUs based on the new NVIDIA offering, among them DUAL EVO, Phoenix and TUF3 series.
Update Oct 24th: Seems the actual launch is October 29th, this post has more info: https://www.techpowerup.com/260391/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-super-launching-october-29th-usd-229-with-gddr6
Sources:
ITHome, Videocardz
The Chinese pricing is expected around 1100 Yuan, which converts to $150 — surprisingly low, considering GTX 1660 retails at $210 and GTX 1660 Ti is priced at $275. Maybe NVIDIA is adjusting their pricing to preempt AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 5500/5600 Series. Videocardz has separately confirmed this rumor with their sources at ASUS Taiwan, who are expected to launch at least three SKUs based on the new NVIDIA offering, among them DUAL EVO, Phoenix and TUF3 series.
42 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super Releases on Oct 29nd
GTX 1650 has 896 shaders, not GTX 1660. 1660 has 1408 shaders and 1660 Ti has 1536.
Using expensive GDDR6 is also weird for this price point. Something is missing !
GTX 1650 Ti should cost 150$, not GTX 1660 Super.
Especially when The new Radeon RX @#^* @^ will already be out, guarding the 249$ price bracket
1650
1650 Ti (rumored, all but confirmed)
1660
1660 Super (this article's new card)
1660 Ti
All these cards are going to be $20-$30 away from each other. What a mess. And it kind of kills the third party cards because you can't really ask for a premium for your fancy OC'ed, cooled-to-the-gills 1660 if there's a Super that is occupying the price point that would make it make sense.
This is a mess for Nvidia. I think they're just throwing shit against a wall to see what sticks before AMD releases the small Navis. But honestly I think that this many options before you even get to the 2060 is just going to cause confusion among customers.
What also doesn't help is that both companies seem to have plateaud performance wise. If it needs to be faster than 1080ti... yeah. We didn't quite figure that out in any sort of cost effective way. So we get rehashed nonsense to chew on. Its this gen in a nutshell and the main reason to avoid it. Any sort of price cut is actually too late already, the cycle should already be done and over with, and Nvidia should be hyping the next best thing. Turing already launched a year ago..
These Supers are a refresh of a pretty sub optimal Pascal refresh go figure.
The 1650Ti or 1660 Super might finally be a match for the old 1060. The only problem is that with nothing new to add, the 1060 is going to walk all over it because you can pick one up from Newegg or similar from as little as $170. You wouldn't though, because the RX570 deals like a new Sapphire RX570 pulse for $120 including a 3 month Xbox game pass make even a $170 GTX 1060 look like a rip-off.
If the 1650 Ti or supposedly superior 1660S launch at $150, it'll completely upset the entire product stack, and that's something I find unlikely because Nvidia hasn't really made a serious effort to undercut AMD on pricing since 2010.
Like they did with 2000 series...
Leaked benchmarks of the $400 5700 and $450 5700XT blew the $500 2070 and $700 2080 out of the water on the price/perfomance curve.
Nvidia had to compensate, even if it meant losing profits by switching to the larger TU104 die for the 2070S.
AMD counter-compensated by then launching at $350 and $400.
Nvidia is not getting rid of failed dies with the Super lineup, it's actually having to use higher-binned dies and dies from the next model up, just to compete with AMD.
Isn't competition great? We all get more performance and more choice without stupid price hikes.
I've been hoping that Nvidia would release a 1680 and 1680 Ti without the added costs of the Tensor and RT cores but maybe they still will before the 3xxx GPUs probably coming next year though I'm not sure that would make sense at this point.
Ti is just Nvidia's whore branding suffix, they use it however they please :D A bit like AMD's X'es.