Asus confirms Geforce GTX 1660 Super – contrasts AMD Radeon RX 5600

The rollout of the Turing architecture became a protracted story as a result of Nvidia sitting on top of old circuits with Pascal in the Geforce GTX 1000 series. After several months, the company was able to start releasing news in the spring of 2019 even in lower price ranges, where the GTX 1660 Ti and GTX 1660 took over the lucrative middle class.

During the autumn, it has been rumored that Nvidia is preparing a new graphics card in the class with the now established suffix “Super”. Videocardz now reports that the Geforce GTX 1660 Super is coming. The information is said to come from the partner manufacturer Asus, which has stated that they have at least three models in the Dual Evo, Phoenix and TUF3 series planned for Nvidia’s new graphics card.

Specifications: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 Super

The difference from today’s Geforce GTX 1660 is that the graphics memory is replaced from 6 GB GDDR5 (8 Gbps) to 6 GB GDDR6 (14 Gbps). With the memory bus of 192 bits, this gives a markedly increased bandwidth of 336 GB / s for GTX 1660 Super, up from 192 GB / s with today’s GTX 1660.

Details such as clock frequency and number of CUDA cores are still obscured. However, it is not a wild guess that the graphics circuit is largely left untouched so that the newcomer will not intrude on the GTX 1660 Ti in terms of performance. With only 2 of 24 SM clusters disabled, today’s GTX 1660 is equipped with 1,408 CUDA cores, compared to 1,536 for the full-featured GTX 1660 Ti.

The new graphics card from Nvidia is expected to be launched in October, ie the same month that AMD is believed to take the architecture Radeon DNA (RDNA) and the graphics family Navi to the middle class.

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