The graphics card hearsay mill by no means ceases to amaze me. Despite no arduous proof by any means, the most recent factor being whispered across the web is that Nvidia are apparently on the point of launch two new GTX 16-series graphics playing cards – the GTX 1660 Super and the GTX 1650 Ti. Indeed, after first recognizing the story on Chinese information web site MyDrivers, even famend leakers VideoCardz have admitted they’ve discovered “no substantial evidence” for such a declare. Even if it does turn into true, although, I simply can’t fathom the place a GTX 1660 Super, or perhaps a GTX 1650 Ti, would even sit on the nice graphics card hierarchy scale. After all, isn’t that the entire level of getting the GTX 1660 Ti?
Let’s break it down. According to this pinch of salt hearsay, the GTX 1660 Super may have sooner reminiscence than the present GTX 1660, upgrading its 6GB of GDDR5 to a at the moment unspecified quantity of GDDR6, though we will in all probability assume it’s going to possible be 6GB once more. Its CUDA core depend, nevertheless, will stay at 1408.
The GTX 1650 Ti, in the meantime, will allegedly preserve the identical 4GB of GDDR5 reminiscence as its non-Super GTX 1650, however will enhance its CUDA core depend from 896 to both 1024 and 1152.
The GTX 1650 Ti I can, maybe, perceive. With the GTX 1650 at the moment sitting across the £145-170 / $150-170 mark and the GTX 1660 at the moment sitting round £210-240 / $230-260, there’s in all probability room for an additional low-end graphics card across the £200 / $200 mark (or excessive lots of, on the very least). After all, the GTX 1650 isn’t actually value shopping for in the meanwhile, particularly not in comparison with AMD’s Radeon RX 570 – see my GTX 1650 vs RX 570 comparability piece to see why – and as you possibly can see from my numerous benchmark outcomes beneath for all three of the present GTX 1650, GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti playing cards, there’s an inexpensive hole between the GTX 1650 and its extra highly effective 1660 cousin.
The factor I can’t perceive, although, is the place a possible GTX 1660 Super might presumably match with the already glorious GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti. I imply, even now you’re solely a mean distinction of round 10fps between these two playing cards – and the hole will get even smaller if you begin different high quality settings too, as you possibly can see in my GTX 1660 vs 1660 Ti comparability piece.
Would the GTX 1660 Super sit between them? Because that’s what the hearsay mill is saying in the meanwhile – that it’s supposed to fit in the midst of these two playing cards, not change the prevailing GTX 1660 – which, let’s remind ourselves, Nvidia actually simply launched in March of this 12 months. I imply, I believed changing a bunch of the lower than a 12 months previous RTX playing cards with their Super equivalents was a daring transfer, however a graphics card that’s solely nearly been on store cabinets for six months? That could be baffling certainly.
It doesn’t even make sense from a pricing perspective, both. With the present GTX 1660 going for round £210-240 / $230-260 at time of writing, you don’t need to spend that rather more to get its best graphics card-winning Ti sibling, which is at the moment hovering round £260-290 / $280-310.
Indeed, even when the GTX 1660 Super is actual and does find yourself getting smooshed someplace between them across the £250 / $250 mark, is it even going to be value shopping for when it’s solely more likely to supply a teeny tiny efficiency enhance over the non-Super model? I doubt it.
All of that is conjecture, after all, however proper now, I simply can’t see a GTX 1660 Super making any type of logical sense, both from a efficiency perspective or a pricing one – and if I’m mistaken, nicely, I’ll eat my GPU-encrusted hat. That’s a promise.
