The Card

The Palit GTX 1660 SUPER GamingPro OC features an upscale design with glossy and matte black bits, an illuminated logo, and a plastic backplate that touches the shroud at the tail end, giving it an industrial design.


Dimensions of the card are 23.5 cm x 11.5 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


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.

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.


The GeForce GTX 1660 Super does not support SLI.

Disassembly

Palit is using an aluminium fin-stack heatsink with copper heat pipes to quickly move the heat. The base-plate makes contact with not just the GPU, but also cools the card's memory and VRM. Two 90 mm fans provide airflow.


The backplate is made out of plastic, and while it won't contribute towards cooling, it will provide stability, improves the look, and protects the card against damage during handling and installation.

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