Friday, October 11th 2019
Confirmed: NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super to Make Use of GDDR6 Memory
Videocardz have snagged some ZOTAC box renders (for an AMP and non-AMP model), and these all but confirm some rumors that have been circulating through the interwebs: NVIDIA's GTX 1660 SUPER will make use of a GDDR6 memory subsystem to increase bandwidth and competitiveness against AMD's lineup. As GDDR6 memory pricing falls, it makes sense that NVIDIA trickles it down across its product stack as a relatively inexpensive way to improve performance - a move that is well in line with their SUPER lineup policy.
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Don't give them any ideas, please!
Hey Nvidia, only new card you need because of competition is cut down tu116 core, cut down memory to 128bit, bundle that with some 14GBps gddr6 and release that card as gtx1650 Super/Ti moniker and you are done.
How? Well, have you even seen what happens when you even push on the GDDR5 of the GTX 1660? These are memory speed starved:
www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-gtx-1660-gaming-x/33.html
Stock is 8Gbps GDDR5, OC is memory at 10Gbps. Guess what's gonna happen with 14Gbps?
Seriously it's what they refer to as an "Amped up" model meaning it runs at higher speeds than a typical example of the card model would. I have two of those (Older cards) that I've had for years now, always worked great and still do.
Seems like the Kepler refresh similarities continue... :P
Been there once, staying fár away since. A balanced card lasts so much longer, its worth investing.
And yeah gddr5x versions still showed that there was more performance to get from those with higher mem BW.
Anywho, how will it perform for its price not that my gtx1050 screens to be replaced, but... .
kay make sense:kookoo: so whichs better, gddr fiv or six?:wtf:
google tells me GDDR6 is better, but im not entirely sure of a 14-16Gbps memory is truly faster than a 8-9Gbps one.
960... starved, horrible card, obsolete in 1,5 ~ 2 years for new games
760... starved, horrible card, obsolete even faster
660... asymmetrical VRAM setup, obsolete rather fast, SLI was impossible to get stutter free
550ti... same shit
During Pascal you could think Nvidia had done away with it, I mean even 1060 3GB wasn't horrible except for not being a 4GB card;
... and there was 1660 :D Depends on how wide the bus is that comes with it
One thing im a bit unsure about is the future of the GTX 1660 Ti. The new GTX 1660 Super might get a 249$ Price tag while retiring both the standard and the Ti models of the GTX 1660.