NVIDIA Readies GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER With GDDR6 Memory – Rumored To Feature 14 Gbps Dies, TU116 GPU

Hassan Mujtaba

If the latest rumors are to be believed, NVIDIA is preparing not one but two GeForce GTX 16 series cards. We already heard about the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti which should fall somewhere around the $150 US price range but there are reports that NVIDIA is also preparing a GeForce SUPER variant of their GTX 1660 graphics card.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Rumored To Be In The Works - Would Feature 14 Gbps GDDR6 VRAM

The rumor comes from MyDrivers who have revealed that NVIDIA is working on a GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER graphics card. The GeForce SUPER lineup has only been available on the RTX variants but looks like NVIDIA may be expanding it to the Turing based GTX lineup too. The graphics card would obviously be better in performance than the GeForce GTX 1660 but would cost a bit extra.

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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. The clock speeds are not mentioned but those can get a slight bump. The major change to the graphics card would be the memory design.

While the GeForce GTX 1660 features 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running at 8 Gbps, the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER would feature 6 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 14 Gbps. This memory is faster than the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti which features 12 Gbps dies. The memory would be featured along a 192-bit bus interface and deliver a total bandwidth of 336 GB/s.

What's interesting here is that these specifications might put the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER right next to the GTX 1660 Ti in terms of performance. Also, the pricing of the card might have to fall in between the GTX 1660 and GTX 1660 Ti so we might be looking at a $250 US MSRP for the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER. With that said, the source suggests that NVIDIA wouldn't replace the GTX 1660 with the SUPER variant but both would exist in the market. This would make an upgrade to 1660 SUPER only $20 US more and same can be said for an upgrade to the Ti variant $20 more than the SUPER variant. The GTX 1660 Ti itself is about 10% faster than the GTX 1660 and the SUPER variant would further decrease its lead which would make the SUPER variant a more compelling option than the Ti, killing its sales.

NVIDIA GeForce 16 Series Specifications

GeForce RTX 2060 FEGeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB
GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB
GeForce GTX 1660 6GB
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GBGeForce GTX 1650 4 GBGeForce GTX 1630 4 GB
Architecture (GPU)
TU106TU116-400TU116-300TU116-300TU116TU117
TU106
TU117
CUDA Cores
19201536 140814081280896512
Tensor Cores
240N / AN / AN / AN / AN / AN / A
RT cores
30N / AN / AN / AN / AN / AN / A
Texture Units
120 96 8888805632
ROPs
48484848323232
Base Clock
1365 MHz1500 MHz1530 MHz1530 MHzTBD1485 MHzTBD
GPU Boost
1680 MHz1770 MHz1785 MHz1785 MHzTBD1665 MHz1800 MHz
Memory
6GB GDDR66GB GDDR66GB GDDR66GB GDDR54GB GDDR54GB GDDR54GB GDDR6?
Memory Bus
192-bit192-bit192-bit192-bit128-bit128-bit64-bit
Memory Clocks
14 Gbps12 Gbps14 Gbps8 Gbps12 Gbps8 Gbps12
L2 cache
3 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB1.5 MB
TDP
160 W120W125W120W100W75W>75W
Transistors
10.8 billion6.6 billion6.6 billion6.6 billion6.6 billion4.7 billion4.7 billion
Die Size
445 mm²284mm2284mm2284mm2284mm2200mm2200mm2
Price
$349$279$229$229$159$149$119?

It is likely that this card will be pushed with such aggressive pricing against the rumored Navi 14 based parts which would soon be powering the lower-end Radeon RX series graphics cards. The early performance results we have seen put the Navi 14 GPUs as fast as RX 570 and RX 580 series cards and if they end up priced below $200 US, we might see some heated competition in the budget market space. We can't say for sure when the card launches but the GTX 1650 TI was suggested to launch around October so we can possibly see the two Turing based GeForce GTX 16 series launches close to one another.

Which NVIDIA GeForce 16 series card is more well-positioned against AMD's entry-level Navi?
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