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The Gigabyte GTX 1660 SUPER Gaming OC 6G ships in a familiar-looking box, with a large robotic eye taking up most of the front – there's no image of the card itself here.
Inside, there's precious little in the way of accessories, with just a quick start guide and driver disk making up the bundle.
Moving onto the card itself, if it looks a bit familiar that's probably because it is – Gigabyte is reusing its existing GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC design for this GTX 1660 SUPER. This makes perfect sense, but if you were expecting some new designs or aesthetic changes then you may be disappointed.
It's a triple-fan card, with three 80mm spinners, though you will note the middle fan actually spins in reverse to the outer two. This is part of Gigabyte's ‘Windforce 3X' design and should help reduce overall turbulence and thus increase airflow down onto the card itself.
As for the overall look of the Gaming OC 6G, I like it. It's quite simple and minimalist, with a mostly black plastic shroud, though there are some grey sections which add interest. By and large, though, it's an inoffensive design that is also very colour-neutral so you could slot this into pretty much any system and it wouldn't look out of place.
Despite being ‘just' two slots thick, the Gaming OC 6G isn't tiny – it measures 280 x 116.7 x 40.4 mm. That's a fairly long card, then, so do double-check if it will fit in your case before purchasing.
Elsewhere, we can see a single Gigabyte logo on the front of the card, and this is the sole RGB zone. We also get a look at the plastic backplate used here – it's not going to help with heat dissipation from the back of the PCB, but it does provide a little extra in the way of structural rigidity and will also help protect the card should an all-in-one liquid cooler start leaking.
As for power connectors, all 1660 SUPER cards require 1x 8-pin connector, so that's what we have here. Display outputs are variable, with Gigabyte opting for 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI.
As for the PCB, this is also identical to the GTX 1660 Ti Gaming OC 6G – as far as I can tell, at least. This means we have a 4+2 VRM solution, while we can also note the 6GB of GDDR6 memory from Micron – labelled ‘9OA77D9WCW'. As there have no changes to the GPU itself, this carries the same ‘TU116-300-A' labelling as the vanilla GTX 1660.
The cooler uses three separate fin stacks, and these are connected by 3x 6mm copper heatpipes. Instead of a contact plate, these pipes makes direct contact with the GPU die, but there are separate plates for the VRAM and VRM.
