Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super to launch on October 29th priced at $229

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The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB may be the world’s worst kept secret but it’s still officially a secret all the same. Now, Nvidia has allegedly officially informed certain members of the press that the GeForce GTX 1660 Super is the real deal and it will be launching in exactly one week’s time.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Super is pencilled in to launch on October 29th and will slot in right between the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB. It bears much more similarity to the former rather than the latter though, lining up with almost identical specs bar the faster GDDR6 video memory.

We’re looking at the exact same cut down TU116-300 GPU, complete with 1408 CUDA Cores, a base clock speed of 1530 MHz and a boost clock of 1785 MHz. The GeForce GTX 1660 Super sets itself apart from the vanilla GTX 1660 thanks to its 6GB GDDR6 memory. This allows for a faster memory speed of 14Gb/s, increasing the memory bandwidth from 192GB/s up to 336GB/s.

Price-wise, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super is expected to begin at $229 from launch next week, around $10 more expensive than a GeForce GTX 1660. Considering the similarity in price, it’s possible the GTX 1660 Super may be replacing an outgoing GTX 1660.

	GeForce GTX 1650	GeForce GTX 1660	GeForce GTX 1660 Super	GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Architecture	TU117	TU116-300	TU116-300	TU116-400
Process	12nm	12nm	12nm	12nm
CUDA Cores	896	1408	1408	1536
TMUs	56	80	80	96
ROPs	32	48	48	48
Base Clock	1485 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	1500 MHz
Boost Clock	1665 MHz	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	1770 MHz
Memory	4GB GDDR5	6GB GDDR5	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	128-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Speed	8 GHz	8 GHz	14 GHz	12 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	128 GB/s	192.1 GB/s	336 GB/s	288 GB/s
Price	$149	$219	$229	$279

There’s not a whole lot in it then, the GeForce GTX 1660 Super can essentially be viewed as a ‘Super’ refresh of the GTX 1660. The greater memory bandwidth should help with higher-resolution textures or displays, although the real-world benefits may be fairly minimal.

Overall, it’s not the most exciting addition to the Nvidia GeForce 16 series line-up, smacking of an over-reaction to AMD imminent Radeon RX 5500 series more than anything. Still, we’ll be eager to see next week whether the use of GDR6 memory helps the GeForce GTX 1660 Super stand apart.

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