The Card

The GTX 1660 Ti XC Black doesn't use the transparent plastic design we've seen on other Turing cards from the company. Rather, it sticks with a dark design that uses a mix of glossy and matte surfaces to drive the looks of the card. A backplate is not included. Dimensions of the card are 19.5 x 11.5 cm.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include a DVI port, one HDMI 2.0b, and one DisplayPort 1.4a.

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 for G-SYNC, users can enable the feature in NVIDIA's control panel, no matter whether the monitor is certified or not.


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


The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti does not support SLI.

Disassembly

EVGA's heatsink uses a copper baseplate and three heatpipes.


Once the main cooler is removed, a black baseplate becomes visible; it provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.

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