In March and April of this 12 months, Nvidia launched their glorious GTX 1660 graphics card and their barely much less spectacular GTX 1650. While the latter wasn’t a lot cop in comparison with AMD’s current RX 570 GPU, the previous went straight in as our best graphics card selection for 1080p gaming. Now, for some purpose, Nvidia have determined to exchange these playing cards with even shinier Super editions, simply six months after they first got here out.
You could keep in mind I used to be barely baffled by the potential existence of those playing cards after they first appeared on the graphics card rumour circuit again in September. From a efficiency perspective, I simply couldn’t see the place one other 1660 card might probably match between the present GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti, and to be trustworthy, I’m nonetheless undecided why Nvidia have felt the necessity to introduce yet one more set of playing cards so quickly after their preliminary launch.
Perhaps it’s in order that they’ve received one thing to shout about whereas AMD get their act collectively on their upcoming RX 5500 graphics card, which can be meant to be on the budget-side of the 1080p spectrum, or possibly these mad graphics wizards simply can’t cease making the rattling issues. Whatever the rationale, it shall stay an everlasting thriller.
I’ll be testing each playing cards sooner or later with full opinions and comparability items to indicate precisely how they evaluate to their non-Super siblings, however proper now, right here’s all the things we learn about them thus far.
GTX 1660 Super launch date
Let’s get the essential stuff out of the way in which first. The GTX 1660 Super is out at this time, October 29th, whereas the GTX 1650 Super’s launch date is presently set for November 22nd.
We nonetheless do not know when AMD can be releasing their RX 5500 card (thus far all they’ve mentioned is earlier than the top of the 12 months), but when they’re not cautious they might undergo one other case of the gazumps, similar to they did when Nvidia launched their first batch of RTX Super playing cards every week earlier than their RX 5700 household.
GTX 1660 Super value
Right now, I’ve solely been given the US pricing for the GTX 1660 Super, however it is best to begin seeing third occasion fashions begin at $229. That’s the identical value as current GTX 1660 playing cards, though Nvidia have instructed me that present GTX 1660 playing cards can be getting some kind of value reduce to make them a extra apparent entry-point to the 1660 household. What that value reduce will really entail, I don’t but know.
The GTX 1650 Super, in the meantime, doesn’t have any official pricing simply but. That will seemingly come subsequent week when it launches correctly.
GTX 1660 Super specs
The GTX 1660 Super relies on the 12th era of Nvidia’s Turing GPU, and you’ll see the total specs desk beneath. The essential distinction between the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Super is that the Super card now has GDDR6 reminiscence clocked at 14 Gbps as an alternative of GDDR5 reminiscence clocked at 8 Gbps. This provides the Super card a peak reminiscence bandwidth of 336GB/s, in comparison with the common GTX 1660’s 192GB/s bandwidth, which, based on Nvidia, makes it as much as 20% quicker than the GTX 1660 and 1.5x quicker than the 6GB GTX 1060.
| GTX 1650 | GTX 1650 Super | GTX 1660 | GTX 1660 Super | GTX 1660 Ti | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CUDA Cores | 896 | 1280 | 1408 | 1408 | 1536 |
| Base Clock | 1485MHz | 1530MHz | 1530MHz | 1530MHz | 1500MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1665MHz | 1725MHz | 1785MHz | 1785MHz | 1770MHz |
| Memory | 4GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR5 | 6GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 |
| Memory Clock | 8 Gbps | 12 Gbps | 8 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 12 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 128GB/s | 192GB/s | 192GB/s | 336GB/s | 288GB/s |
| TDP | 75W | 100W | 120W | 125W | 120W |
The GTX 1650 Super, however, appears to be like as if it’s had a extra substantial tune-up. It nonetheless has 4GB of reminiscence, however this too has now been upgraded to the quicker GDDR6 sort and is now clocked at 12 Gbps, placing its reminiscence bandwidth on the identical taking part in area because the common GTX 1660. Its base and increase clock speeds are additionally rather a lot increased, and it has much more CUDA cores to play with as effectively. Sadly, this implies its TDP has now risen to 100W as an alternative of 75W, so that you’ll seemingly have to make use of an influence connector with it as an alternative of simply drawing all of your essential energy straight from the motherboard.
The huge query, in fact, is whether or not all that can be sufficient to compete with AMD’s Radeon RX 5500, which is about to come back in 4GB and 8GB GDDR6 reminiscence varieties, with respective base and increase clock speeds of 1717MHz and 1845MHz. We’ll simply have to attend and see.
