NVIDIA has announced two new graphics cards for the
PC in the mid-range price category, the GTX 1660 SUPER and the GTX 1650 SUPER.
Both these cards will compete with the upcoming RX 5500 series of graphics
cards from AMD.
The GTX 1660 SUPER is the card launching today
through board partners. The GTX 1660 SUPER is an evolution of the GTX 1660
launched earlier this year, although it won't be replacing it and will slot
between the GTX 1660 and the GTX 1660 Ti.
The GTX 1660 SUPER packs in the same 1408 CUDA cores
as the GTX 1660 and the same 1530MHz base and 1785MHz boost clock speeds. The
only difference between the two is the use of faster and higher clocked 14Gbps
GDDR6 memory on the GTX 1660 SUPER as compared to 8Gbps GDDR5 on the GTX 1660.
NVIDIA claims this makes the GTX 1660 SUPER 20% faster than the GTX 1660 and
1.5x faster than the GTX 1060 6GB.
On paper, at least, the GTX 1660 SUPER is still
beaten by the GTX 1660 Ti, which has more CUDA cores (1536) but that may not be
enough to distance itself from the GTX 1660 SUPER, considering the GTX 1660 Ti
already wasn't significantly faster than the standard GTX 1660. The GTX 1660
SUPER also has higher clocked memory.
Next is the GTX 1650 SUPER, which has more CUDA
cores (1280) vs the GTX 1650 (896). It also has higher base clock at 1665MHz
and higher boost clock at 1485MHz. The GTX 1650 SUPER also comes with faster
12Gbps GDDR6 memory, although it's still limited to 4GB. NVIDIA says all of
this makes the GTX 1650 SUPER 50% faster than the GTX 1650 and 2x faster than
the GTX 1050.
The GTX 1660 SUPER is going on sale today through
board partners, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte,
Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac with a starting price of US$ 229. The GTX 1650 SUPER will be
available on November 22, which is also when we will learn the pricing for that
model.
