ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660 Super AMP

[W1zzard]

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.

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[dirtyferret]

Not really sure where the demand is for these cards? It's clearly "benchmark" better then the 1660 and just within hand holding distance of the 1660ti. I'm guessing there is a cheaper manufacturing cost associated with the cards otherwise why take away sales from two cards that launched about six months ago?

 

[kings]

Not really sure where the demand is for these cards?

More performance/dollar is always welcome.

At $230, It’s one of the best cards to buy at the moment in the mid range segment.

 

[dirtyferret]

More performance/dollar is always welcome.

For the consumer absolutely but the manufacturer was basically selling these cards at $279 with no competition from AMD in this segment.

At $230, It’s one of the best cards to buy at the moment in the mid range segment.

basically the only card to look at from $200-300 dollars. Almost an identical price as the GTX1660, uses 100w less power and gives you 20% more performance then the AMD RX 590 for just $30 more. For the consumer it's a clear winner.

 

[B-Real]

Not really sure where the demand is for these cards? It's clearly "benchmark" better then the 1660 and just within hand holding distance of the 1660ti. I'm guessing there is a cheaper manufacturing cost associated with the cards otherwise why take away sales from two cards that launched about six months ago?

Well, it's only $10 more than the 1660, and without OC, it performs nearly identical to the 1660 Ti. However, checking the OC results, you will get the difference: 1660 OCs by ~14-15%, the 1660Ti by ~10-13% and the 1660 Super by only ~6%. So you get the 1660S base performance by OCing the 1660, but you can get ~6% better performance for $10 more, which is actually good. However, the price gap is too big for the 1660Ti to buy, where you get ~7-8% extra performance compared to the Super by OCing it - for an extra $50. Compared to the 1660, the Ti was an option for ~15% extra performance for an extra $60, but not an option any more for an extra 7-8% extra performance against the Super for the extra $50.

 

[D@mn]

Display connectivity options include a DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.0b, and dual-link DVI-D. This DVI connector lacks analog pins. Should you still have an analog VGA monitor, you'll have to buy an active DVI-to-VGA adapter.

There is definitely no DVI here
This copy-paste is repeated in almost all recent 1660S reviews.

ZOTAC's cooling solution for the GTX 1660 SUPER AMP features an aluminium fin-stack heatsink with two heatpipes and a 2-stage base-plate.

But I counted three heat pipes =)
BTW the official website also speaks about three heat pipes.

ZOTAC is using a 4-phase VRM to power the GPU, which is driven by a UPI uP9512S controller, which pulls a conventional MOSFET setup with QN3107 high-side and QN3103 low-side MOSFETs made by UBIQ Semiconductor.

Not really...

QN3103 HIGH-side
QN3107 LOW-side

 

[W1zzard]

There is definitely no DVI here
This copy-paste is repeated in almost all recent 1660S reviews.



But I counted three heat pipes =)
BTW the official website also speaks about three heat pipes.



Not really...

QN3103 HIGH-side
QN3107 LOW-side

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