ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6 Twin Fan Graphics Card

ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6 Twin Fan Graphics Card

GTX 1660 SUPER TWIN Fan Graphics Card Provides Improvements In Performance, Memory Bandwidth, And Power Efficiency Over Its Predecessor, The High-Performance Pascal Architecture.The Front Panel Of The Card Features A Variety Of Outputs, Such As DisplayPort 1.4 And HDMI 2.0b. The GTX 1660 SUPER Is Not Just About High-Resolution Gaming. Computationally Intensive Programs Can Utilize The GPU’s 1408 Cores To Accelerate Tasks Using CUDA And Other APIs. For Cooling, ZOTAC Implemented A Dual-Fan Cooler. The Dual Fans Cover More Of The Heatsink To Disperse Heat More Efficiently.

NVIDIA GPU Boost 4.0

Boosts The Card’s Clock Speed In Real-Time Based On The Target Temperature. If The Card Is Running Below The Set Target Temperature, GPU Boost 4.0 Will Increase The Clock Speed To Improve Performance. The Target Temperature Can Be Reset Depending On Your Preference So You Can Have The Card Run More Quietly For Everyday Tasks And Older Games, And Run At Full Tilt During Intense High-Resolution Gaming Sequences.

NVIDIA Ansel

With Ansel, Gamers Can Compose The Gameplay Shots They Want, Pointing The Camera In Any Direction And From Any Vantage Point Within A Gaming World. They Can Capture Screenshots At Up To 32 Times The Screen Resolution, And Then Zoom In Where They Choose Without Losing Fidelity. With Photo-Filters, They Can Add Effects In Real-Time Before Taking The Shot. And They Can Capture 360-Degree Stereo Photospheres For Viewing In A VR Headset Or Google Cardboard.

CUDA

NVIDIA’s Parallel Computing Platform Which Enables An Increase In Computing Performance By Harnessing The Parallel Nature Of GPU Processing. CUDA-Compatible Applications Can Assign Intensive Parallel Computing Tasks, Such As Real-Time Video Rendering, To The GPU To Process, Freeing Up The Computer’s CPU To Run Other Tasks.

G-SYNC Ready

When Used With A Monitor That Has G-SYNC Hardware Installed, The Monitor’s Refresh Rate Will Sync And Lock With The Graphics Card’s Output Frame Rate. Establishing This Sync Removes Tearing And Stuttering Which Can Result From Conventional Fixed Screen Refresh Rates, Especially Important For Gaming In Stereoscopic 3D. An Additional Benefit Of G-SYNC Is Reduced Lag So Gamers Will Benefit From The Improved Command Response Time As Well.

ZOTAC GAMING GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB GDDR6 Twin Fan Review

As we detailed the “TU116” in our GTX 1660 Ti reviews, this silicon is derived from the “Turing” architecture by removing RT cores and tensor cores, leaving just the CUDA cores, which have the same IPC and clock-speed uplifts as any other RTX 20-series card. The target audience for the GTX 1660 is that colossal mass of gamers into online multiplayer e-Sports titles and just in need a card that can keep them ticking at Full HD, perhaps even at high refresh rates.

NVIDIA carved the GTX 1660 out of the “TU116” silicon by disabling 2 out of 24 streaming multiprocessors, resulting in a CUDA core count of 1,408 and 88 TMUs, which is still higher than what the “Pascal” based GTX 1060 6 GB packs. With 48 ROPs and a 192-bit GDDR5 memory bus driving 6 GB of memory, the rendering and memory subsystem is practically carried over.

In this review, we take a look at the ZOTAC 1660 Twin Fan, a compact custom-design board with a short board to let it fit into most cases, but a dual-fan cooling solution loaded to the boot. The card sticks to NVIDIA reference clock speeds and pulls power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.

The GeForce 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 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 1660 Ti.

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