ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMP review

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Conclusion

Final words and verdict

The basic models will start at 229 USD. With the GTX 1660 Series you do get up-to-snuff with the latest Turning architecture, just not tensor and RT cores. So in the 1920x1080 and maybe even 2560x1440 a good number of games will run fine, alongside improved power consumption. This 6 GB card offers the performance one can expect and you will see an up-to 4% advantage over the base model. Tweaking wise there's room left. We do think that all cards will match a roughly 10% OC bracket that, really, is by NVIDIA's design. As mentioned, the 6 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory at Full HD is sufficient. 



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Aesthetics

As stated the card does not come with fancy RGB options and does not have the mega hyper cooler. If you look at the photo above you can actually see the aluminum fins. That's said, for the base MSRP product this really isn't a bad looking card IMHO + the small form factor is a big plus for many. 

Cooling & acoustic levels

The card tops out at roughly only 65 Degrees C while gaming. So that's not bad at all, the acoustics I'd rate as silent to moderately hearable as you can hear light airflow and a bit of hum if the fans ramp up or down. In idle the fans do not spin btw. We've heard no noticeable coil whine. But I do want to note that any graphics card at a high-enough FPS can make some coil whine. 

Overclocking

Much like any NVIDIA product these days, we've been able to push roughly 8% extra perf out of the card compared to the reference card. The combination of memory, power and voltage settings will bring you a proper overclock. Once you've applied it, you get a few percents more perf. Here again, we expect all brands to roughly reach this kind of tweaking performance.

   

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Concluding

You know, I have to say that the 'new' SUPER series 1660 is a bit puzzling. Are these graphics cards downgraded 1660 Ti's or upgraded 1660 cards? Well, we'll follow suit with naming and will call it upgraded 1660. However, if you'd take a 1660 Ti PCB and SMT mount a 1660 GPU on there, that's really what we are talking about today. The product obviously is nice for the mainstream market but sits in a very narrow window between the two aforementioned cards. You'll see 1660 performance with let's call it 10% extra performance thanks to the memory type used. Any 1660 non-Ti, however, is clearly positioned against the competitions Radeon RX 590. The reality is also that most consumers have put RTX cards on hold due to the sales price of Raytracing range, which remains to be steep. The GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER addresses the issue of offering a more compelling product. The Twin fan edition offers okay aesthetics with a compact design at very acceptable acoustics and cooling performance. The baseline performance is a little on the lower side despite its higher clock frequency. We're certain that the TDP allowance (power limiter) has a bit less Wattage assigned but that's , easily tweaked out that. Combined with good cooling levels, acoustics and healthy tweaking potential on top of that factory tweak we feel this is a worthwhile product. What's nice though it has all these variables housed inside a very compact design, and that is worthy of a recommendation as these are really handy to use add-in cards if priced right at that 229 USD marker.

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