The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Review, Feat. EVGA XC GAMING: Turing Stakes Its Claim at $219
by Ryan Smith & Nate Oh on March 14, 2019 9:01 AM ESTOverclocking
Last, but not least, we'll take a look at overclocking. While NVIDIA does support overclocking, they have limited actual overvolting, and instead providing the ability to unlock 1-2 more boost bins and associated voltages. Either way, Maxwell 2 and Pascal certainly have much to thank for high clockspeeds; for Maxwell 2, it was a combination of high efficiency and ample overclocking headroom, while Pascal took advantage of the FinFET process to ramp up the clocks to new heights.
A total of four different overclocks were tested via EVGA's Precision X1; unfortunately, we were not able to get the auto OC scanning functionality to fully work. First was a baseline, consisting of 100% overvoltage and max temperature limits; power limit is already set to a soft cap of 130W at stock. The second was overclocking the GDDR5 memory by 1Gbps. The third was overclocking the GPU by +100MHz; in practice, observed clocks were in the mid 1900MHz. Lastly, all previous adjustments were combined for an overall overclock.
| GeForce GTX 1660 Overclocking | ||||||
| Baseline | Memory OC | GPU OC | All OC | |||
| Core Clock | 1530MHz | 1530MHz | 1530MHz | 1530MHz | ||
| Boost Clock | 1785MHz | 1785MHz | 1885MHz | 1885MHz | ||
| Memory Clock | 8Gbps | 9Gbps (+250MHz) | 8Gbps | 9Gbps (+250MHz) | ||
Naturally, these results cannot be taken as representative of all GTX 1660 cards, but results here can offer some insight.
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Cellar Door - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
At the moment this card offers better perf/$ then a RX 580 - which is impressive considering Nvidia's price antics this generation.eva02langley - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
No it is not.The RX 580 is 179$. Making it 2.304$ per frame on techspot. They screw up again with their cost analysis. Also, you have 2 AAA games with it bundle. The RX 580 is still the value king hand down.
https://static.techspot.com/articles-info/1811/ben...
Don't get me wrong, this card is interesting, but is it groundbreaking in anything? No... if Nvidia was offering it at 170$, then that would be disruptive.
Cellar Door - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
You are wrong, all the $179 580 cards are only 4GB. Please don't spread misinformation.Marlin1975 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
https://www.microcenter.com/product/479525/red-dra...It was $169 last week, now its $179.
8Gb RX580s go for around $170-190 right now. The RX570 is as low as $140
eva02langley - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
The only thing you had to do is look at the price list on the first page to SEE that I am right and that YOU are spreading nonsense.flyingpants265 - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
There is no such thing as $/frame.ElDiomedes - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Probably only in the US, I saw Microcentre offering some RX 580 8gb at $168. The 8 GB Nitro+ is still $340 here. While the 1660 will start from $230. In the SEA region, only a few retailers in Australia have the RX 580 in the ~$200 region. So keep in mind, no one is gonna buy AMD with those prices outside of US.Qasar - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
eva02langleythe AAA games they bundle with the cards are meaningless.. if you dont play them, or want them, so that is a moot point, and may not be a factor for some...
how do they even come up with the cost per frame?? never even heard of that metric before.....
Threska - Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - link
Not meaningless if one can sell all three games offsetting the purchase price.PeachNCream - Thursday, March 14, 2019 - link
Not bad. The price point is reasonable and the performance is good enough. I wish it had a lower TDP and I don't care at all for the triple slot form factor. Still, this _might_ be the GPU that lures me back to owning a desktop PC for gaming. It is still difficult to justify the costs given that PCs end up as second acts with crappy console ports and you pay more for the hardware just to get poorly optimized games a few months after everybody else has already played them.