Tuesday, October 29th 2019
NVIDIA Releases GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Graphics Card: GDDR6 Makes A World of Difference
NVIDIA today released the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card at USD $229, just $10 more than the GTX 1660. The card has identical specifications to the GTX 1660, with 1,408 CUDA cores, 88 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. It even has the same GPU clock speeds, at 1530 MHz core with 1750 MHz GPU Boost. The not-so-secret sauce lending it a major performance boost is memory - GDDR6. Armed with 6 GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory, faster than even what the GTX 1660 Ti ships with, NVIDIA is able to shore up performance of the GTX 1660 by near two figures. The GTX 1660 Super is probably designed to preempt AMD's Radeon RX 5500 series. A purely partner-driven launch, the GTX 1660 SUPER is available from today, in custom-design boards from nearly all NVIDIA partners.
We've reviewed five GeForce GTX 1660 Super cards today: ASUS Phoenix, Gigabyte Gaming OC, MSI Gaming X, Palit GamingPro OC and Zotac AMP.
We've reviewed five GeForce GTX 1660 Super cards today: ASUS Phoenix, Gigabyte Gaming OC, MSI Gaming X, Palit GamingPro OC and Zotac AMP.
32 Comments on NVIDIA Releases GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Graphics Card: GDDR6 Makes A World of Difference
It probably just shows that AMD cards really like Vulkan.
But whatever, Linux != Windows, case closed.
In all seriousness though, regardless of OS, I would expect the same results, at least for the results to scale the same way, and they don't. Something is to account for that, and I doubt it's the OS. Totally could be drivers though.
Ideally, we'd see the scaling you describe; realistically, I'm not expecting it.