The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC) is one of the first NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics cards to be introduced.
Let’s take a closer look at the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC), and find out how well it performs!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Primer
A few months after launching the RTX SUPER family of graphics cards, NVIDIA has finally unleashed the GTX SUPER series!
GeForce Product Manager Justin Walker briefed us on the GTX 1660 SUPER, as well as the GTX 1650 SUPER, in an exclusive pre-launch briefing, which we prepared for you here, including a short Q&A session :
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is basically the regular GTX 1660 with 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory, increasing its memory bandwidth from 192 GB/s to 336 GB/s.
Recommended : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER : The Full Details!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Price + Availability
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER has a launch price starting from $229 onwards, which is $10 more than the regular GTX 1650. Here is a list of online purchase options, and their prices (accurate as of 1 November 2019) :
Malaysia
- GALAX GeForce GTX 1660S (1-Click OC) : RM 1,089
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : RM 1,259
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : RM 1,179
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming X : RM 1,239
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : RM 1,129
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Aero : RM 1,049
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : RM 1,129
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : RM 1,069
United States
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S OC : $229.99
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : $239.99
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : $249.99
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : $239.99
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming X : $259.99
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : $249.99
United Kingdom
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S Phoenix : £218.11
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S EVO OC : £228.09
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1660S SC Ultra Gaming : £227.61
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : £237.46
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : £240.94
- Palit GeForce GTX 1660S StormX : £269.99
- Palit GeForce GTX 1660S StormX OC : £276.09
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Single Fan : £282.77
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : £291.02
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming Pro OC : £301.34
Australia
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S Phoenix : A$413.00
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S TUF Gaming X3 : A$516.80
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : A$435.23
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : A$466.00
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : A$413.00
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : A$434.00
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC)
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER cards are only be available from NVIDIA board partners as custom cards, without a Founders Edition reference design.
One of the first examples is the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC), and we managed to get our grubby hands on an early sample!
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super hews quite close to the reference specifications, with one exception.
It has a 15 MHz higher boost clock out-of-the-box, with a further 15 MHz enabled by its 1-Click OC feature. This gives it a maximum boost clock of 1815 MHz.
Here is a table comparing the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super, with the reference GTX 1660 SUPER, the GTX 1660 Ti and the regular GTX 1660.
Specifications | NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti |
GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER |
NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER |
NVIDIA GTX 1660 |
Stream Processors | 1536 | 1408 | 1408 | 1408 |
Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 1530 MHz | 1530 MHz | 1530 MHz |
Boost Clock | 1770 MHz | 1815 MHz | 1785 MHz | 1785 MHz |
TMUs | 96 | 88 | 88 | 88 |
Max. Texture Rate | 169.9 GT/s | 159.7 GT/s | 157.1 GT/s | 157.1 GT/s |
ROPs | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
Max. Pixel Rate | 85.0 GP/s | 87.1 GP/s | 85.7 GP/s | 85.7 GP/s |
Memory Size | 6 GB | 6 GB | 6 GB | 6 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
Memory Speed | 12 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 14 Gbps | 8 Gbps |
Bus Width | 192-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit | 192-bit |
Memory Bandwidth | 288.1 GB/s | 336.0 GB/s | 336.0 GB/s | 192.1 GB/s |
TDP | 120 watts | 125 watts | 125 watts | 120 watts |
Next Page > GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER : Key Features | Thermal Output | Noise Level
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GALAX GTX 1660 Super : Display Ports
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super offers three display ports. From left to right, they are :
- DisplayPort 1.4
- HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.2 support
- DVI-D
Technically, this allows it to display out to a maximum of three monitors, but it might not be practical in real life.
It is, in particular, difficult to do so for three similar monitors, because they would have to support three different ports!
Incidentally, the cooling vents above the display ports are purely decorative. Not only are the heatsink fins aligned in parallel, the cooler shroud actually blocks hot air from exiting through these vents.
GALAX GTX 1660 Super : RGB Heatpipe Cooler
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super is kept cool by an aluminium heatsink, with four copper heat pipes.
The finish of the aluminium heatsink isn’t that awesome, but at least it has heat pipes to transfer heat from the GPU to the entire heatsink.
The heatsink is kept cool by two 90 mm fans, that not only has fan stop capability, but also comes with programmable RGB lighting!
Hot air from this cooler exhausts upwards and downwards. This is a shame, because it means the hot air recirculates within the PC case, instead of exhausting out the back.
GALAX GTX 1660 Super : Thermal Output
Note that these are not the recorded temperatures, but how much hotter the exhaust air is above ambient temperature.
The GALAX GTX 1660 Super with a 125 watt TDP has roughly the same peak exhaust temperature as the GeForce RTX 2060 with a much higher 175 watt TDP.
GALAX GTX 1660 Super : Noise Level
How noisy is the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super? Check it out for yourself in this video!
Despite its rough finish, the aluminium heat pipe cooler does a great job of keeping the NVIDIA TU116 GPU cool, without the fans. In fact, the fans did not start spinning until about a minute into the Time Spy Extreme benchmark!
If you are not gaming and just doing work or watching YouTube or a movie, it will be completely silent. Even when you are running a strenuous game, the fans are quiet. That said, we did hear some rattling from the fans in our sample…
GALAX GTX 1660 Super : PCIe Power + Interface
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super has a TDP of 125 watts, and requires an 8-pin PCIe power cable.
It uses the good old PCI Express 3.0 x16 interface, which gives it the same PCIe bandwidth as the PCI Express 4.0 x8 interface used by the competing AMD Radeon RX 5500.
Next Page > GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER : 3DMark + Division 2 Benchmark Results
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GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Benchmarking Notes
In this review, we will take a look at its gaming performance, in comparison to 7 other graphics cards :
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
- AMD Radeon RX 5700
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 64
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
Here is a quick comparison of their key specifications :
Min. Texture Fill Rate |
Min. Pixel Fill Rate |
Memory Size + Type |
Memory Bandwidth |
|
Radeon RX Vega 64 | 319.2 GT/s | 81.5 GP/s | 8 GB HBM2 | 484 GB/s |
Radeon RX Vega 56 | 258.9 GT/s | 74 GP/s | 8 GB HBM2 | 410 GB/s |
Radeon RX 5700 | 211 GT/s | 93.8 GP/s | 8 GB GDDR6 | 448 GB/s |
GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | 199.9 GT/s | 94.1 GP/s | 8 GB GDDR6 | 448 GB/s |
GeForce GTX 1070 | 180.7 GT/s | 96.4 GP/s | 8 GB GDDR5 | 256 GB/s |
GeForce RTX 2060 | 163.8 GT/s | 65.5 GP/s | 6 GB GDDR6 | 336 GB/s |
GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER | 134.6 GT/s | 73.4 GP/s | 6 GB GDDR6 | 336 GB/s |
GeForce GTX 1060 | 120.5 GT/s | 72.3 GP/s | 6 GB GDDR5 | 192 GB/s |
Here are the specifications of the AMD testbed we used.
Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero |
Memory Speed | G.SKILL Sniper X DDR4-3400 (8 GB x 2) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-3200 (8 GB x 2) |
Monitor | Dell P2415Q Ultra HD Monitor |
Storage | SanDisk Ultra 3D SSD (1 TB) |
Operating System | Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) |
Synthetic Game Test – 3DMark
We used 3DMark’s Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme synthetic benchmarks, which offers a great approximation of gaming performance in general.
The Time Spy and Time Spy Extreme benchmarks support DirectX 12, and the latest features like asynchronous compute, and multi-threading support.
Time Spy – 2560 x 1440
Wow! In the Time Spy test, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER was 3% faster than the GTX 1070, and 46% faster than the GTX 1060! In fact, it was just 5.5% slower than the Vega 56.
Its overall gaming score was 3% higher than the GTX 1070, 42% higher than the GTX 1060 and just 4.7% lower than the Vega 56.
Time Spy Extreme – 3840 x 2160
At the higher 4K resolution, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER was equal to the GTX 1070 in performance, but 47% faster than the GTX 1060. It was also 10% slower than the Vega 56.
Its overall gaming score was the same as the GTX 1070, 42% higher than the GTX 1060, and 9.2% lower than the Vega 56.
The Division 2
Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 is a third-person shooter game released in March 2019.
We tested it in two resolutions using the Extreme settings :
- 1080p : 1920 x 1080 pixels
- 1440p : 2560 x 1440 pixels
1080p Gaming Resolution
At 1080p, it was 3% faster than the GTX 1070 and 43% faster than the GTX 1060. However, both Vega 56 and RTX 2060 were 20% faster.
However, it’s important to note that the GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER was able to deliver an average frame rate way above 60 fps.
1440p Gaming Resolution
At 4K, it was 5% faster than the GTX 1070 and 69% faster than the GTX 1060.
Next Page > GALAX GTX 1660 SUPER : Strange Brigade | Metro Exodus | AOTS Benchmark Results
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Strange Brigade
Strange Brigade is also a third-person shooter game, released in August 2018.
We tested it in two resolutions using the Vulkan API at the Ultra High settings :
- 1080p : 1920 x 1080 pixels
- 1440p : 2560 x 1440 pixels
1080p Gaming Resolution
At 1080p, it was 6.5% faster than the GTX 1070 and 52% faster than the GTX 1060. The Vega 56 was just 14% faster.
1440p Gaming Resolution
At 4K, it actually extended its lead over the GTX 1070 to 14%, and the GTX 1060 to 58%! It was now just 11% slower than the Vega 56.
Metro Exodus
Metro Exodus is a relatively new first-person shooter game, released in February 2019.
We tested it in two resolutions using the Ultra settings :
- 1080p : 1920 x 1080 pixels
- 1440p : 2560 x 1440 pixels
1080p Gaming Resolution
It didn’t do so well in Metro Exodus. At 1080p, it was 6.5% slower than the GTX 1070, and just 29% faster than the GTX 1060.
2160p Gaming Resolution
At 4K, it was 5.5% slower than the GTX 1070, and 31% faster than the GTX 1060.
Ashes of the Singularity
Ashes of the Singularity is a 2016 game that supports multi-core processing and asynchronous compute.
We tested it in two resolutions using the DirectX 12 API at the Extreme settings :
- 1080p : 1920 x 1080 pixels
- 1440p : 2560 x 1440 pixels
1080p Gaming Resolution
It didn’t do well in AOTS, where it was 14% slower than the GTX 1070, and 35% faster than the GTX 1060 at 1080p.
1440p Gaming Resolution
It did better at 1440p, where it tied with the GTX 1070, and was 67% faster than the GTX 1060!
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GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super : Performance Summary
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER is nothing more than the regular GTX 1660 with faster GDDR6 memory. This gives it the same GPU performance, but with 75% higher memory bandwidth.
This addresses a key deficit of the regular GTX 1660 cards, enough to give it a 10% to 25% boost in 1080p gaming performance according to NVIDIA.
The GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC) is a slightly-overclocked variant of the GTX 1660 SUPER, with just a 30 MHz increase in the boost clock speed.
In our tests, it did pretty well, matching or even beating the GeForce GTX 1070 in many games :
- Time Spy : 3% faster at 1080p, 2.4% faster at 4K
- The Division 2 : 3% faster at 1080p, 5% faster at 4K
- Strange Brigade : 6.5% faster at 1080p, 14% faster at 4K
- Metro Exodus : 6.5% slower at 1080p, 5.5% slower at 4K
- AOTS : 14% slower at 1080p, 1.9% slower at 4K
There’s something odd with the AOTS results, so we will be retesting the cards with the newer 441.08 driver that was released just after the launch.
But generally, the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super card offers real good value for the money. For just $229, you are getting a card that’s basically equal in performance to the GeForce GTX 1070.
This is pretty impressive, because the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has a 34% higher texture fill rate and 31% higher pixel fill rate on paper. What the GTX 1070 was short on was memory bandwidth, just 256 GB/s – 24% lower than the GTX 1660 SUPER.
GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super : Our Verdict
Its aluminium heatsink isn’t all that nicely-finished, but it does the job well enough, thanks to the four copper heat pipes and dual 90mm fans.
The fans only spin up when the GPU gets hot, which means it’s virtually silent until you start gaming. They are pretty quiet, but we noticed some rattling.
Now, it is factory-overclocked with a 15 MHz higher boost clock. But it’s called a 1-Click OC model because you actually need to use the 1-Click OC button in the GALAX Xtreme Tuner utility to increase the boost clock by another 15 MHz.
Interestingly, their latest Xtreme Tuner utility has not been updated to support this card, so the 1-Click OC option is greyed out. However, you can manually overclock the card… so you have to wonder – why bother with the 1-Click OC option?
A 30 MHz increase in the boost clock is nothing special. They should have just set the boost clock to 1815 MHz right out-of-the-box, and save everyone the hassle.
Our quibbles aside, the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super is a decent card. More importantly, it’s cheaper than many of its competitors.
So yes, the GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super is definitely a card to consider, if you are looking for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER card.
GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 Super (1-Click OC) Specifications
Specifications | GALAX GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER |
Model | 60SRL7DSY91S |
GPU | NVIDIA TU116-300 |
Base Clock | 1530 MHz |
Boost Clock | 1815 MHz |
Max. Texture Rate | 159.7 GT/s |
Max. Pixel Rate | 87.1 GP/s |
Graphics Memory | 6 GB GDDR6 (14 Gbps) |
Memory Bandwidth | 336.0 GB/s |
Cooling | 2 x 90 mm cooling fans Aluminium heatsink 2 x copper heatpipes |
TDP | 125 watts |
Power Connector | 8-pin |
Interface | PCI Express 3.0 x16 |
Display Ports | 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 1 x HDMI 2.0b 1 x DVI-D |
Dimensions (w/o bracket) | 214 mm wide 118.65 mm tall 38.6 mm thick |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER : Where To Buy
Here is a list of online purchase options, and their prices (accurate as of 1 November 2019) :
Malaysia
- GALAX GeForce GTX 1660S (1-Click OC) : RM 1,089
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : RM 1,259
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : RM 1,179
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming X : RM 1,239
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : RM 1,129
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Aero : RM 1,049
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : RM 1,129
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : RM 1,069
United States
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S OC : $229.99
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : $239.99
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : $249.99
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : $239.99
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming X : $259.99
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : $249.99
United Kingdom
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S Phoenix : £218.11
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S EVO OC : £228.09
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1660S SC Ultra Gaming : £227.61
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : £237.46
- MSI GeForce GTX 1660S Ventus XS OC : £240.94
- Palit GeForce GTX 1660S StormX : £269.99
- Palit GeForce GTX 1660S StormX OC : £276.09
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Single Fan : £282.77
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : £291.02
- PNY GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming Pro OC : £301.34
Australia
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S Phoenix : A$413.00
- ASUS GeForce GTX 1660S TUF Gaming X3 : A$516.80
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S OC : A$435.23
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660S Gaming OC : A$466.00
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S Twin Fan : A$413.00
- ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1660S AMP : A$434.00
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