MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming X review - Product Showcase

The graphics card has been fitted with a Turing GPU based on 12nm FinFet architecture and, with almost 7 billion transistors, this somewhat castrated GPU has 1408 active shader/stream cores also marketed as CUDA cores by NVIDIA.

The back side, the back side is covered with a back-plate with some gaps to vent, the PCB is small and extending away from the PCB is the actual cooler, the card reaches temperatures in the 60 maybe 65 Degrees C range in our testing and remains at a silent acoustic noise level. I'm not sure if I preferthe gunmetal grey color though, I have more of a black = better kind of feel preference as most motherboards have a black PCB as well.

  
The card has a 120 Watt rated TDP, 75 Watts is delivered through the PCIe slot, then 1x150 Watts capacity feeds in through the 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connector.