Igor over at Igor's Lab has managed to confirm the GTX 1660 SUPER's clock rate as well as the memory standard it will be shipping with - allowing us to get a very good idea of how the theoretical performance of this upcoming NVIDIA GPU is going to stack up against the likes of the AMD RX 5500 XT. Since I don't really like leaving someone hanging, here's the overview: the NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER is going to beat the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT but not a possible RX 5600 XT (this card is only rumored at this point).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER will be clocked at 1785 MHz and feature GDDR6, performance just under the AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

The problem, as many of our readers would remember, is that NVIDIA's standard GTX 1660 variant supports only GDDR5. Considering AMD's Radeon RX 5500 is launching soon with GDDR6 and clocked at roughly 1.7GHz, this would mean NVIDIA's vanilla 1660 stands no chance against the RDNA powered competitor in red. The answer, it turns out, is to equip the card with GDDR6 memory as well. With memory clock rising to 14 Gbps from a mere 8 Gbps and a boost clock that is much higher than the succeeding GTX 1660 TI, the GTX 1660 SUPER offers 94 to 96% of the performance at a much lower price point.

In terms of specifications, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER would utilize the TU116-300 die, same as the existing GeForce GTX 1660. It would feature the same core config of 1408 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, and 48 ROPs.

This also means that the sales of the Ti are going to get cannibalized since the performance per dollar value of this card is going to be superior to the vanilla Ti. Using the core count, clock rate and memory Igor calculated the expected performance of not only the NVIDIA GTX 1660 SUPER but the AMD RX 5500 XT as well. He also included a possible RX 5600 XT. Why? Well, the difference between the RX 5700 XT and RX 5500 XT is huge, which means AMD will probably roll out a card to fill this gap in the near future (this is how yield theory works after all).

Performance estimation based on architectural calculations using core count, clock speed and memory.

According to Igor's calculations, the GTX 1660 SUPER will be 2.8% faster than the AMD RX 500 XT and 4.3% slower than the GTX 1660 Ti. The rumored AMD RX 5600 XT will be 11% faster than the GTX 1660 SUPER, meaning it is probably going to face off against the next rank and file in NVIDIA's lineup rather than the GTX 1660 SUPER. Pricing of the GTX 1660 SUPER is not confirmed at this point but considering the original retailed for $219, you are probably looking at a price point of anywhere from $200 to $279 to account for the more expensive GDDR6 memory vs. strategic price cuts. This memory is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti which features 12 Gbps dies. The memory would be featured along with a 192-bit bus interface and deliver a total bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

It is worth noting that Igor has confirmed the existence of the GTX 1660 SUPER - so this card no longer has rumored status in our books. According to Videocardz, the GTX 1660 SUPER is going to be launching near the end of the month on October 29, with availability next month. Things are starting to get heated in the mainstream segment where the majority of GPUs are shipped and gamers are soon going to be able to purchase more fps for the same dollars.

NVIDIA GeForce 16 Series Specifications

	GeForce RTX 2060 FE	GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB	GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB	GeForce GTX 1660 6GB	GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB	GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB	GeForce GTX 1630 4 GB
Architecture (GPU)	TU106	TU116-400	TU116-300	TU116-300	TU116	TU117 TU106	TU117
CUDA Cores	1920	1536	1408	1408	1280	896	512
Tensor Cores	240	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A
RT cores	30	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A
Texture Units	120	96	88	88	80	56	32
ROPs	48	48	48	48	32	32	32
Base Clock	1365 MHz	1500 MHz	1530 MHz	1530 MHz	TBD	1485 MHz	TBD
GPU Boost	1680 MHz	1770 MHz	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	TBD	1665 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR6?
Memory Bus	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit	64-bit
Memory Clocks	14 Gbps	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	12 Gbps	8 Gbps	12
L2 cache	3 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB
TDP	160 W	120W	125W	120W	100W	75W	>75W
Transistors	10.8 billion	6.6 billion	6.6 billion	6.6 billion	6.6 billion	4.7 billion	4.7 billion
Die Size	445 mm²	284mm2	284mm2	284mm2	284mm2	200mm2	200mm2
Price	$349	$279	$229	$229	$159	$149	$119?

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