EVGA GTX 1660 SUPER SC Ultra Review

1. Introduction2. EVGA GTX 1660 SUPER SC Ultra3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. 3DMark Port Royal (1440p DXR)6. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)16. Clock Speed17. Temperatures18. Acoustics19. Power Consumption20. Overclocking: Frequency and Games21. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power22. Closing Thoughts23. View All Pages

Following on from our launch day reviews of Nvidia's GTX 1660 SUPER, today we are reviewing another partner card, this time from EVGA. The 1660 SUPER SC Ultra is a compact, dual-fan card with a factory overclocked core, promising good levels of performance without taking up too much space in your case. Additionally, it even sports a metal backplate, when most of its competitors in this segment either have no backplate or use a cheaper plastic one.

For GTX 1660 SUPER launch, we reviewed Gigabyte's Gaming OC 6G alongside Palit's GamingPro OC, finding both to be technically impressive cards. Today, our attentions turns to EVGA'S GTX 1660 SUPER SC Ultra. Measuring just 202mm long, this is a very compact card yet its core has still been overclocked to 1830MHz boost, the same rated frequency as the Palit GamingPro OC.

GPU	RTX 2060 (FE)	GTX 1660 Ti	GTX 1660 SUPER	GTX 1660	GTX 1060
SMs	30	24	22	22	10
CUDA Cores	1920	1536	1408	1408	1280
Tensor Cores	240	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tensor FLOPS	51.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
RT Cores	30	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Texture Units	120	96	88	88	80
ROPs	48	48	48	48	48
Rays Cast	5 Giga Rays/sec	–	–	–	0.44 Giga Rays/sec
RTX Performance	37 Trillion RTX-OPS	–	–	–	N/A
GPU Boost Clock	1680 MHz	1770 MHz	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	1708 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	8 Gbps
Total Video Memory	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5	6GB GDDR5
Memory Interface	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	336.1 GB/sec	288.1 GB/sec	336 GB/sec	192.1 GB/sec	192 GB/sec
TGP	160W	120W	125W	120W	120W

As a quick refresher, GTX 1660 SUPER uses the same TU116 GPU from GTX 1660, with 22 SMs and 1408 CUDA cores – nothing has changed there. The difference is that 1660 SUPER uses 14Gbps GDDR6 memory, when the vanilla 1660 uses 8Gbps GDDR5 memory. That, and a resulting 5W different in TGP (Total Graphics Power), are the only differences between 1660 and 1660 SUPER.

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