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there's just no other way to do this um NVIDIA i completely retract my previous

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apology the GeForce gtx 1660 super is

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literally a gtx 1660 but with gddr6

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memory it's no more it's no less and if

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i was as lazy as you i would just end the video right here

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except that this card actually gives us a great opportunity to see just how much

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of a difference a generational leap in memory technology can make

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to what is otherwise the same card so watch on friends because there's more

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to this than meets the eye and even if you don't end up buying one for yourself

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there is a good chance you're going to end up recommending a 1660 super to a

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friend on a budget the most interesting part of this whole launch is the

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features even if they aren't exclusive to the new cards first up is what NVIDIA

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calls null NVIDIA ultra low latency an

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obvious me too version of Radeon anti-leg and while you might be thinking

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well yeah Linus but they've had that for months now

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and you'd be right before it was incompatible with g-sync

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now you can enable both g-sync and null at the same time which means you don't

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have to choose between responsiveness and smooth stutter and tear-free output

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then there's the image sharpening support that is now built into the

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NVIDIA control panel rather than requiring GeForce experiences freestyle

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overlay and

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great i mean i didn't really get it when AMD

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introduced Radeon image sharpening and now it's spreading i mean don't get

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me wrong if you like it then it's great that it's in the control panel only

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problem is that it looks horrible and you're utterly tasteless for liking it

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no offense and anyway the big new feature includes

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support for applying a sharpening filter already anyhow

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so okay if you've never heard of reshade or speedfx before essentially what it

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does is hook into the game and provide a way to customize the aesthetic to your

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liking there is an impressive list of presets available for all kinds of

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different games from toon shading all the way up to hyper realistic HDR

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effects with every step in between and every little knob and dial is tweakable

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by you the user well now NVIDIA is

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including reshade support in GeForce experience that means you no longer have

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to manually copy dll files into each individual games folder in order to add

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and tweak those filters they're right there in the overlay that you may or may

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not already be using now it doesn't support all filters with

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all competitive titles and non-official custom filters are only supported on

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games that explicitly allow them but this is a really cool first step and is

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big news to the point where i mean who knows maybe this is the feature that'll

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win over a big chunk of the GeForce experience skeptics out there as i

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alluded to in the intro this video though all those features are rolling

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out in software for the entire touring lineup and for all intents and purposes

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the hardware launched is just a gtx 1660

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with a memory upgrade fortunately though it is a big one going

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from 192 gigabytes a second to a whopping

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336 gigabytes a second with gddr6 RAM is

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a big deal because up until now the

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lowest end card that you could get with memory that fast was the rtx 2060

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so just how memory bottlenecked was the

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1660. to find out we set up our test bench with a fresh Windows 10 install on

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the latest BIOS and drivers using envy clean stall and it didn't take long to

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validate NVIDIA's claims that the new card is close to a 1660 ti remarkably we

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were just one or two frames off at most in shadow of the tomb raider and

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borderlands 3 even in our percentile minimums it looks like gaming really was

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memory starved now we do diverge a little bit more in rainbow six siege

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albeit still while maintaining over 100 FPS and csgo for its part seems to care

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very little about the extra memory bandwidth but we would expect nothing

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less for a well a less memory intensive title so

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take note guys if you play mostly older or graphically simple games the super

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might not make that big of a difference speaking of which while productivity

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isn't this card's major selling point and the difference isn't major it is

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still an improvement over the 1660 non-super in some areas like blender and

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it actually overtakes the 1660 ti in v-ray and octane where its higher core

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clocks and fast memory are more important than its lower cuda core count

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otherwise though we've got improvements across much of spec view perf and then

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not much else it's clear that this is a gaming card first and a content creation

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card second with the only exception being the inclusion of turing's

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excellent end bank engine which offers x264 like hardware encoding to mid-range

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gamers and especially streamers along with anyone else who might appreciate it

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taken together then we have a strange situation on our hands here where the

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weaker gtx 1660 is gonna stay within

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about twenty dollars of the super while the ti is going to cost a cool 50

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dollars more with very little extra bang

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unless you want to overclock its extra cuda cores so NVIDIA essentially

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obsoleted both of those older skus but then

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didn't discontinue them the good news is

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that's NVIDIA's problem not yours so for anyone who's looking for a solid 1080p

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and sometimes 1440p GPU and especially

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anyone that wants to get started with streaming their gameplay this one is

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kind of a no-brainer with an asterisk the rdna-based Radeon

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rx 5500 series is on the way to replace

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AMD's aging rx 500 series that quite

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frankly just couldn't keep up in modern titles in our testing

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so then 1660 super is the current lightweight champ but until we know how

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the entry-level rdna cards perform and what price they'll launch at it's hard

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to say go out and buy it now

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so get subscribed so you don't miss our upcoming review of those other cards

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another source of hesitation for us is that as advocates of deal hunting used

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hardware in this particular price range we really liked some of the deals that

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we saw on 1070 series cards and Radeon

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rx vega 56s some of which can be flashed

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with the vega 64 BIOS for improved performance with that said we fully

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understand that not everyone is comfortable with buying used pc parts

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and the used market is both volatile and

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eventually runs dry so with that in mind

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NVIDIA good work i make no apologies whatsoever

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about recommending this card so hope you liked the video if you guys

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enjoyed diy pc hardware we did a recent video testing out some mystery me

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chinese cpus that you guys might like we're gonna link that below

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see ya