It’s not been a good time for upgrading your PC throughout current months, as ongoing coronavirus-related delays and provide chain disruptions have pushed up the costs of all types of PC parts, together with our trusty graphics playing cards. There’s a bit of bit of excellent information, although, as Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Super has dropped in worth but once more within the UK, taking this glorious 1080p graphics card all the way down to £210.
That’s simply £10 greater than its pre-pandemic worth, in keeping with our Amazon UK worth tracker, the place it hit a low of £200 again in January. It’s additionally £10 cheaper than it was the other week, too, displaying that costs are certainly on the way in which down.
Specifically, it’s Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1660 Super Twin Fan mannequin that’s at the moment £210 at Amazon. Alas, you received’t get it tomorrow, even in case you have Prime, as a result of inventory isn’t due till July 3, however you possibly can pre-order it for £210 if you happen to’ve been fascinated by upgrading your graphics card lately.
We can vouch for Zotac’s tackle this 1080p-oriented GPU, too, as a result of it’s the very card that Katharine examined final 12 months in her GTX 1660 Super review. Yes, it’s solely a minor enchancment on the vanilla GTX 1660, however provided that costs of each playing cards are just about similar in the intervening time, the GTX 1660 Super is unquestionably the higher worth GPU proper now – as you’ll see in our repeatedly up to date Graphics card deals hub.
“The GTX 1660 Super remains a very good 1080p card that’s built for 60fps on High to max settings in today’s big blockbusters, as well as a smooth 60fps on Medium quality at 1440p – exactly like the normal 1660,” Katharine mentioned in her overview. So if you happen to’ve solely bought a 1080p monitor and don’t care about ray tracing, that is nicely price a glance – alternatively, you’re ready to present AMD a listening to, then the Radeon RX 5500 XT is a really interesting (and cheaper) various at £167.
