The Card

The ZOTAC GTX 1660 SUPER AMP is designed for maximum compatibility through its compact dimensions. It includes a backplate that wraps around the card on two sides, giving it an industrial look.


Dimensions of the card are 21.5 cm x 12.5 cm.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include three standard DisplayPort 1.4a and an HDMI 2.0b.

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

ZOTAC's cooling solution for the GTX 1660 SUPER AMP features an aluminium fin-stack heatsink with three heatpipes and a 2-stage base-plate. A copper base pulls heat from the GPU, while secondary aluminium base plates make contact with the memory chips and VRM over thermal pads. A pair of 90 mm fans ventilate the heatsink.


The backplate is made out of metal and wraps around the card along the top and tail ends of the card, with perforations to let air through.

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