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

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.

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.

NVIDIA GeForce 16 Series Preliminary Specifications

	GeForce RTX 2060 FE	GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB	GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6GB	GeForce GTX 1660 6GB	GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4 GB	GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB
Architecture (GPU)	TU106	TU116-400	TU116-300	TU116-300	TU117	TU117
CUDA Cores	1920	1536	1408	1408	1024?	896
Tensor Cores	240	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A
RT cores	30	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A	N / A
Texture Units	120	96	80	80	64	56
ROPs	48	48	48	48	32	32
Base Clock	1365 MHz	1500 MHz	TBD	1530 MHz	TBD	1485 MHz
GPU Boost	1680 MHz	1770 MHz	TBD	1785 MHz	TBD	1665 MHz
Memory	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR5
Memory Bus	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Clocks	14 Gbps	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	8 Gbps	8 Gbps
L2 cache	3 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB	1.5 MB
TDP	160 W	120W	TBD	120W	75W	75W
Transistors	10.8 billion	6.6 billion	6.6 billion	6.6 billion	4.7 billion	4.7 billion
Die Size	445 mm²	284mm2	284mm2	284mm2	200mm2	200mm2
Price	$349	$279	~$249	$229	$179?	$149

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. 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.

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