Although I’m sort of going in a reverse order, since one came before the other, as a follow up of my nhận xét of recently GTX 1650 Super series, feel không tính tiền to kiểm tra it out in the right đứng top corner of this video, today I will be taking a closer look it’s next Super brother – the MSI GTX 1660 Super Gaming X.
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So, what’s actually different from the GTX 1660 Super in comparison to lớn its non-Super brother. Well… You’ll be a bit disappointed, as many of us probably were when the first information & initial review about it came out, as only one thing was actually changed, và that is that it received faster GDDR6 clip memory instead of the GDDR5, which almost doubled the video clip memory performance, giving it 14 Gbps memory data rate over a 192-bit memory bus, which makes the memory bandwidth capable of doing 336 GB/s, instead of the 192 GB/s on GTX 1660. Although it just a single nâng cấp in question, It’s not all bad news as you’ll see later on, on the contrary, it will make a decent performance margin difference because it’s a pretty substantial hardware upgrade.
Besides the video clip memory change, that’s basically it, everything else is the same, we have 1408 CUDA core, 88 texture units and 48 ROP’s, and the same GPU core & boost clock speeds, but these are not set in stone since they vary from manufacturer to lớn manufacturer, their factory overclock and cooling capabilities. If you need a reference point and performance comparison with the GTX 1660 Series, feel không lấy phí to kiểm tra out my review of MSI GTX 1660 Gaming X, I’ll put a liên kết to it in the right đứng top corner of this video.
Be sure lớn subscribe lớn my channel, because I’m also going to vị a comparison of this card, or series to be more precise, with the GTX 1650 Super, I think it will be interesting khổng lồ see how these two stacks up & is the GTX 1660 Super worth that extra money considering the performance gain you get over it weaker brother.
MSI GTX 1660 Super Gaming – familiar looks
As for this particular model, I think you all pretty much saw how this current Nvidia based generation of MSI’s Gaming series looks, I’ve placed a couple of those in my portoflio of graphics card đánh giá over last few months, and what’s different about this years kiến thiết is that they moved away from the black and red màu sắc scheme, & went for the dark gray and black color scheme, which is more neutral & goes along with basically anything. Other than that, as I said, if you had a chance to check any of the current-gen models from their Gaming sub-brand, it’s basically the same as any other, the only thing that changes fro series khổng lồ series is their length, cooler construction behind that vị trí cao nhất shroud and video output layout, although that is lately pretty, as is with this model, where we have three DisplayPort and one HDMI connections.
Another good thing in comparison with the GTX 1650 Super Gaming X model, is that this one does get all the bells và whistles, in particular, that being the RGB LED lighting of MSI’s hình ảnh sản phẩm on the side of the card, instead of just being white, as well as few RGB LED lines around the two 85 mm Torx 3.0 fans, all of that can be controlled over MSI’s rồng Center software utility, and a nice clean looking metal back-plate with brushed aluminum finish look, completing the whole well build look và being the cherry on the đứng đầu so to speak.
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With doing so the GPU temperatures pretty much stayed the same, between 64-65°C with just a slight change in fan hâm mộ speed, but nothing too alarming. The stock load temperature was mostly hanging around the 62-64°C mark on an open testbed, mostly on the upper side of those two numbers, while the idle temperatures were sitting at a bit higher 49°C, which is again a pretty common sight considering that the fans don’t run due to MSI’s Zero Frozr công nghệ which turns them off if the GPU temperatures is below 60°C, & vice versa. All of this is achieved thanks khổng lồ their long-running Twin Frozr cooler design, which is now in its seventh generation and which in this instance uses three heat pipes which goi through the very dense aluminum heatsink và the nickel-plated cooper GPU base plate, while it also has a black base-plate which cover a big surface portion around the GPU, và is used for cooling of the video memory và components of the 4+2 phase nguồn design.
Before I get to lớn the benchmarking results, if you have any question or other concerns about this card, feel không tính phí to leave your bình luận down below, and down there, in the mô tả tìm kiếm box to be precise, you can also find my thiết đặt which I used for testing this GPU out, but the bộ vi xử lý core components are usual – Intel’s six-core vi xử lý core i5 – 8600K CPU overclocked khổng lồ 5,1 GHz and paired with 2 x 8GB of 3000 MHz DDR4 RAM.
Should you pay a bit more for MSI GTX 1660 Super Gaming X?
Jumping over lớn the performance figures, looking at the results và knowing what I saw when I did my GTX 1660 reviews a few months back, we got roughly on average a 10% FPS increase in comparison lớn its non-super brother. That’s pretty awesome since the price difference is half of that percentage, so it defiantly makes more sense than it value-wise. Although this performance increase won’t allow you to lớn play the latest titles at 4K without any major graphics settings compromises, it will bring in overall higher FPS numbers, especially in those better-optimized titles, which can be greatly appreciated by users who have high-refresh-rate monitors.
As for the performance of the thẻ while using those overclocking settings, here you can also see additional performance gain of around 10%, so that’s another 10% on vị trí cao nhất of the 10% gain which was achieved by just swapping the đoạn phim memory from GDDR5 to GDDR6, & all of that will, in the end, give you a pretty nice kick in frame-rate đầu ra capabilities of this series.
The noise that the fans make when the thẻ is under load is next to lớn silent as they spin between 1100 and 1200 RPM during gaming. With the card being overclocked that’s just a bit above 1200 RPM, but still far from being unbearable, let alone when you would put in a chassis, & that’s coming from me, and I’m what you would call a noise freak. Here’s a short sound đoạn phim of the card under stock và OC load, while also showing the sound meter for measurement comparison.
When you draw the line, in comparison khổng lồ the regular GTX 1660 series, it’s definitely more than reasonable khổng lồ go on & stretch your budget for that additional 10-20$ in order to lớn get a pretty substantial performance gain with choosing a GTX 1660 Super for that minor price difference instead of it. That said, the existence of its non-Super brother is put in question, and I feel like Nvidia is going end up with a lot of it on stock, or maybe this is just a tacit they’re using, a bit so lớn speak, lớn make us spend more, while in the background they’re producing more GTX 1660 Super & far less GTX 1660 series cards.
That’s it for this time, I hope this MSI GTX 1660 Super Gaming X review helps you reconsider the GTX 1660 series, if you have any question feel free to hit me in the comments section of my YouTube video clip listed above, you can tương tác me via my social media channels!
