The Card

The ASUS GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Phoenix is the company's entry-level product based on this GPU, and it is designed for maximum compatibility.


Dimensions of the card are 17.5 cm x 12 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include one each of 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.

NVIDIA has updated their display engine with the Turing microarchitecture, which now supports DisplayPort 1.4a with support for VESA's nearly lossless Display Stream Compression (DSC). Combined, this enables support for 8K@30Hz with a single cable or 8K@60Hz when DSC is turned on. For context, DisplayPort 1.4a is the latest version of the standard that was published in April, 2018.

At CES 2019, NVIDIA announced that all their graphics cards will now support VESA Adaptive Sync (aka FreeSync). While only a small number of FreeSync monitors have been fully qualified with G-SYNC, users can enable the feature in NVIDIA's control panel regardless of whether the monitor is certified or not.


The board uses an 8-pin power connector. This input configuration is specified for up to 225 watts of power draw.


GeForce GTX 1660 Super does not support SLI.

Disassembly

Calling this cooler minimalist would be an understatement. Under the plastic shroud is a simple monoblock aluminium heatsink with a copper core and radially projecting forked fins (similar in design to Intel's stock CPU cooler). Heat pipes are not installed. A single 100 mm fan provides airflow.


Thick thermal pads push heat from the memory chips on to the heatsink, which doesn't even have provisions where the thermals pads are. The VRM is passively cooled under the fan's airflow.

On the next page, we dive deep into the PCB layout and VRM configuration.