Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G Graphics Card is integrated with 6GB GDDR6 192-bit memory interface. It is powered by GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and comes with NVIDIA Turing architecture and GeForce Experience. It offers WINDFORCE 2X cooling system that features 2x 90mm unique blade fans, an alternate spinning fan, a composite copper heat pipe direct touch GPU, and 3D active fan functionality, together delivering an effective heat dissipation capacity for higher performance at lower temperatures. The GIGABYTE “Alternate Spinning” is the only solution that can solve the turbulent airflow of adjacent fans. Since the adjacent fans rotate in the same direction, the airflow direction is opposite between the fans, which will cause turbulent airflow and reduce heat dissipation efficiency. GIGABYTE turns the adjacent fans in the opposite direction, so that the airflow direction between the two fans is the same, reducing the turbulence and enhancing the airflow pressure.

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G shape of the pure copper heat pipe maximizes the direct contact area with the GPU, enhancing heat transfer. GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G heat pipe also covers the VRAM through a large metal plate contact to ensure proper cooling. The composite heat pipe combines thermal conductivity and phase transition to efficiently manage the heat transfer between two solid interfaces which increases cooling capacity. GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G graphics card uses the better power phases design to allow the MOSFET to operate at lower temperature, and over-temperature protection design and load balancing for each MOSFET, plus the Ultra Durable certified chokes and capacitors, to provide excellent performance and longer system life. GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G back plate not only provides an aesthetical shape, but also enhances the structure of the graphics card to provide complete protection. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6GB comes with 2 years warranty.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6GB GDDR6 Review

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has the same exact CUDA core count as the GTX 1660, at 1,408, and is based on the same 12 nm “TU116” silicon. The GPU clock speeds are unchanged, too, with 1530 MHz core and 1785 MHz GPU Boost. The SUPER-charging of this SKU begins with its memory subsystem. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER gets 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps, which is faster than even the 12 Gbps GDDR6 memory found on the GTX 1660 Ti and on par with that of the much pricier RTX 2060 in terms of memory bandwidth—336 GB/s, a massive 75 percent increase over the GTX 1660. With it, NVIDIA hopes to shore up performance by up to 20 percent without touching the CUDA core count and stepping on the toes of the GTX 1660 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G is a fantastic card for budget gamers. It builds on the GeForce GTX 1660 to take the power up a notch, yet, it offers that boost in performance while still staying in the budget range for graphics card that makes a card like this so attractive. Essentially, you don’t have to spend much more for that extra bit of performance.

Finding that sweet spot of solid 1080p gaming for a reasonable price is not the easiest task for budget gamers. Most of the GPUs available these days are just too pricey. That’s where the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super comes in.

With its improved speed and video memory compared to the original 1660, it’s the perfect card for anyone building or taking their budget gaming PC to the next level, since the GTX 1660 Super stands somewhere between the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti in terms of performance and price.As such, it’s a welcome part of the Nvidia Turing line up, and considering what it offers in terms of overall value, it is still one of the best graphics cards for anyone on a tight hardware budget.

If you’re on the market for the best graphics card for 1080p gaming, you’re going to want the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super. The original GTX 1660 was already one of the best cheap graphics cards out there for budget builders, and Nvidia basically made it better in every single way. The Nvidia Super series has been kind of hit and miss – with the RTX 2080 being a notable flop – but we can’t recommend the GTX 1660 Super enough.

At the end of the day, 1080p is the most popular resolution for PC gaming, and graphics cards in this price range are where most people will end up spending their money. And even after the release of the AMD Radeon RX 5500, Nvidia still dominates this part of the landscape, and it’s not hard to see why.

The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER D6 6G is based on the same TU116 GPU as both the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti, but has the same 1,408 CUDA cores as the original 1660.  The big difference over the original graphics card is the bump up to GDDR6 video memory, resulting in a boost in memory speed from 8Gbps to 14Gbps – that’s just as fast as the VRAM in the massively powerful RTX 2080 Ti.

This bump up to GDDR6 goes a long way to bridging the gap between the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti, but it doesn’t quite go all the way.

And, it’s also important to note that this GPU doesn’t have the RT and Tensor cores that the RTX 20-series of Turing graphics cards have. This means that while you can technically enable ray tracing, it’s going to turn whatever game you try to enable it on into a slideshow – more so than it does on any other graphics card. During our testing, we accidentally left ray tracing on in Metro Exodus, and even the menu was nigh-unusable (to find out why, check out our “What is Ray Tracing” primer on the subject).

But, really, at the end of the day you can’t expect a graphics card in this weight class to compete with graphics cards that cost twice as much. The GTX 1660 doesn’t have RT cores, nor does the GTX 1660 Ti, so it only makes sense for the GTX 1660 Super to be limited here. That honestly makes it all the more impressive that it’s still among the best Nvidia GeForce graphics cards you can buy.

One thing you should be aware of is that the ports are a bit limited on the GeForce GTX 1660 Super. We tested the EVGA GTX 1660 Super SC Ultra, and it’s limited to DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort. This isn’t exactly a graphics card that you’re going to run 10 displays off of, but we would have liked to see Nvidia drop the DVI port and add in either a second HDMI or maybe even a USB-C port.

Finally, if you do pick this graphics card up, you will need external power to make it run, in this case an 8-pin PCIe power connector. This means that the GTX 1660 Super does draw 127.4W alone in the most taxing situations, so you should make sure you have at least a 500W power supply.