The Card

Palit's card is dominated by the black plastic on the cooler and its single fan with transparent blades. A backplate is not available. Dimensions of the card are 17.5 x 13.0 cm.


Installation requires two 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 does not support SLI.

Disassembly

Palit's heatsink uses three heatpipes to keep the card cool.

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