there's just no other way to do this um NVIDIA i completely retract my previous
apology the GeForce gtx 1660 super is
literally a gtx 1660 but with gddr6
memory it's no more it's no less and if
i was as lazy as you i would just end the video right here
except that this card actually gives us a great opportunity to see just how much
of a difference a generational leap in memory technology can make
to what is otherwise the same card so watch on friends because there's more
to this than meets the eye and even if you don't end up buying one for yourself
there is a good chance you're going to end up recommending a 1660 super to a
friend on a budget the most interesting part of this whole launch is the
features even if they aren't exclusive to the new cards first up is what NVIDIA
calls null NVIDIA ultra low latency an
obvious me too version of Radeon anti-leg and while you might be thinking
well yeah Linus but they've had that for months now
and you'd be right before it was incompatible with g-sync
now you can enable both g-sync and null at the same time which means you don't
have to choose between responsiveness and smooth stutter and tear-free output
then there's the image sharpening support that is now built into the
NVIDIA control panel rather than requiring GeForce experiences freestyle
overlay and
great i mean i didn't really get it when AMD
introduced Radeon image sharpening and now it's spreading i mean don't get
me wrong if you like it then it's great that it's in the control panel only
problem is that it looks horrible and you're utterly tasteless for liking it
no offense and anyway the big new feature includes
support for applying a sharpening filter already anyhow
so okay if you've never heard of reshade or speedfx before essentially what it
does is hook into the game and provide a way to customize the aesthetic to your
liking there is an impressive list of presets available for all kinds of
different games from toon shading all the way up to hyper realistic HDR
effects with every step in between and every little knob and dial is tweakable
by you the user well now NVIDIA is
including reshade support in GeForce experience that means you no longer have
to manually copy dll files into each individual games folder in order to add
and tweak those filters they're right there in the overlay that you may or may
not already be using now it doesn't support all filters with
all competitive titles and non-official custom filters are only supported on
games that explicitly allow them but this is a really cool first step and is
big news to the point where i mean who knows maybe this is the feature that'll
win over a big chunk of the GeForce experience skeptics out there as i
alluded to in the intro this video though all those features are rolling
out in software for the entire touring lineup and for all intents and purposes
the hardware launched is just a gtx 1660
with a memory upgrade fortunately though it is a big one going
from 192 gigabytes a second to a whopping
336 gigabytes a second with gddr6 RAM is
a big deal because up until now the
lowest end card that you could get with memory that fast was the rtx 2060
so just how memory bottlenecked was the
1660. to find out we set up our test bench with a fresh Windows 10 install on
the latest BIOS and drivers using envy clean stall and it didn't take long to
validate NVIDIA's claims that the new card is close to a 1660 ti remarkably we
were just one or two frames off at most in shadow of the tomb raider and
borderlands 3 even in our percentile minimums it looks like gaming really was
memory starved now we do diverge a little bit more in rainbow six siege
albeit still while maintaining over 100 FPS and csgo for its part seems to care
very little about the extra memory bandwidth but we would expect nothing
less for a well a less memory intensive title so
take note guys if you play mostly older or graphically simple games the super
might not make that big of a difference speaking of which while productivity
isn't this card's major selling point and the difference isn't major it is
still an improvement over the 1660 non-super in some areas like blender and
it actually overtakes the 1660 ti in v-ray and octane where its higher core
clocks and fast memory are more important than its lower cuda core count
otherwise though we've got improvements across much of spec view perf and then
not much else it's clear that this is a gaming card first and a content creation
card second with the only exception being the inclusion of turing's
excellent end bank engine which offers x264 like hardware encoding to mid-range
gamers and especially streamers along with anyone else who might appreciate it
taken together then we have a strange situation on our hands here where the
weaker gtx 1660 is gonna stay within
about twenty dollars of the super while the ti is going to cost a cool 50
dollars more with very little extra bang
unless you want to overclock its extra cuda cores so NVIDIA essentially
obsoleted both of those older skus but then
didn't discontinue them the good news is
that's NVIDIA's problem not yours so for anyone who's looking for a solid 1080p
and sometimes 1440p GPU and especially
anyone that wants to get started with streaming their gameplay this one is
kind of a no-brainer with an asterisk the rdna-based Radeon
rx 5500 series is on the way to replace
AMD's aging rx 500 series that quite
frankly just couldn't keep up in modern titles in our testing
so then 1660 super is the current lightweight champ but until we know how
the entry-level rdna cards perform and what price they'll launch at it's hard
to say go out and buy it now
so get subscribed so you don't miss our upcoming review of those other cards
another source of hesitation for us is that as advocates of deal hunting used
hardware in this particular price range we really liked some of the deals that
we saw on 1070 series cards and Radeon
rx vega 56s some of which can be flashed
with the vega 64 BIOS for improved performance with that said we fully
understand that not everyone is comfortable with buying used pc parts
and the used market is both volatile and
eventually runs dry so with that in mind
NVIDIA good work i make no apologies whatsoever
about recommending this card so hope you liked the video if you guys
enjoyed diy pc hardware we did a recent video testing out some mystery me
chinese cpus that you guys might like we're gonna link that below
see ya