MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Super Ventus XS OC 6GB Graphics Card

The MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Super Ventus Series has ultra-fast GDDR6 memory, bringing you performance that’s up to 50% faster than the original GTX 16 Series and up to 2X faster than previous-generation 10 Series GPUs. It’s time to gear up and get SUPER. Battle Royale games demand maximum FPS. Get the competitive edge you need with GeForce. A fresh new dual fan design, VENTUS proudly displays its industrial shapes in neutral colors to fit any build. Using two of the award-winning TORX Fans 2.0, MSI VENTUS graphics cards provide years of top-notch cooling performance.Featuring concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations, adaptive shading technology, and a new unified memory architecture with twice the cache of its predecessor, Turing shaders enable awesome performance increases on today’s games. Get 1.4X power efficiency over previous generation for a faster, cooler, and quieter gaming experience.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPERTM Series has ultra-fast GDDR6 memory, bringing you performance that’s up to 50% faster than the original GTX 16 Series and up to 2X faster than previous-generation 10 Series GPUs. It’s time to gear up and get SUPER.Battle Royale games demand maximum FPS. Get the competitive edge you need with GeForce.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Afterburner is the world's most recognized and widely used graphics card Overclocking software. It gives you full control of your graphics card and enables you to monitor your system’s key metrics in real-time.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 latest version of MSI Afterburner features OC Scanner for GTX 16 series graphics cards. OC Scanner is an automated function that will find the highest stable overclock settings for your card. Giving you a free performance boost for a smooth in-game experience thanks to higher FPS.Developed under an exclusive partnership with BlueStacks, the MSI APP Player brings seamless gaming experience between mobile games and PC platform, and leverages customized features as specific keyboard lighting and better graphics with multi-task works.

MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Super Ventus XS OC 6GB Graphics Card Review

We review the new MSI GeForce GTX 1660 VENTUS XS OC edition. No-no, you read it right ... the non-Ti version. The new product is more value targeted and sits in NVIDIA's new mainstream line of the GTX 1660 series products. MSI has already factory tweaked the card a notch for you.We mentioned this a couple of times before, but initially, when the first rumors on the GeForce GTX (yes, with a G) surfaced, speculation was everywhere and we had doubts NVIDIA would actually release a new GTX while moving forward towards it's RTX branding. But yes, NVIDIA is now injecting a Turing based GPU into the mainstream called TU116. To make it more affordable NVIDIA stripped away the RTX and DLSS features, that means there are no RT and Tensor cores on this GPU. It's a fall back towards the original shader design model. And that's where we land today with this review.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 GPU has 1536 shader for the Ti model and 1408 shader cores (aka CUDA cores / Stream processors) tied to 6GB of memory for the regular 1660 (non-Ti). So you can choose two video card series based on the same chip, the GTX 1660 and the 1660 Ti. The Ti variants we have seen in the first launch wave and thus will get GDDR6 graphics memory, the non-Ti is fitted with GDDR5 graphics memory as well as offering 6GB and 3GB configurations. In the year 2019 we, however, could never advise a 3GB graphics card. The 1660 series is making use of the Turing architecture but will not have Raytracing and Tensor cores, this is why NVIDIA dropped the RTX suffix back to GTX. The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti cards are to occupy the 250 to 300 USD price domain where the GTX 1660 will sit in a 200 to 250 USD pricing level, currently occupied by the AMD Polaris 20-based Radeon RX 580 and RX 570 series.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 graphics cards are based on Turing architecture, offering just that fundamental shading engine. MSI GeForce GTX 1660 GPU has been cut-down, the available memory configurations will be 6GB GDDR6 for the Ti models and 3 or 6GB GDDR5 for the non-Ti models. Our tested card has been fitted with 6GB of GDDR5 memory (8 Gbps) running a 192-bit wide bus. This 120 Watt rated graphics card has 1408 active shader processors (that value is 1536 on the GTX 1660 Ti and 1920 on the RTX 2060). It has a proper boost clock and there will be no differentiation for the reference values compared to the AIB partners.MSI GeForce GTX 1660 will offer no less than eight different SKUs, in the above table you can see the naming, cooling model and listed Boost clocks for your reference. Having smaller TU116 silicon with close to 6.6 Billion transistors it doesn't run very warm. The cooler applied is offered in a dual-slot design. MSI GeForce GTX 1660 comes fitted with one PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power header (8-pin). MSI applies their latest iteration of the TORX fan cooler for the GeForce GTX 1660 which makes use of two TORX 2.0 fans which combine the advantages of both traditional and dispersion fan blades to generate huge amounts of airflow. It's a decent looking product with good cooling and acoustic performance. MSI GeForce GTX 1660 offers one HDMI port and three DisplayPorts. There is no DVI and/or Virtual link (USB) connector. This Turing 116 GPU empowered product keeps that GPU at roughly 60 to 65 Degrees C marker depending on game load whilst remaining virtually silent. The GDDR5 memory has been not been tweaked, the ICs are stock 8 Gbps (effective clock-rate) but can be bumped upwards with the flick of your fingers as we'll show you in the tweaking chapters. Meet the GeForce GTX 1660 from MSI. 

Specifications:

Video Memory Specifications
Type	GDDR6
Size	6GB
Resolution	7680x4320
Core Clock	Boost: 1815MHz
Memory Clock	MEMORY SPEED: 14 Gbps
BUS Type	192-bit
Memory Interface	PCI Express x16 3.0
CUDA Cores	1408
Interface
Display Port	DP x 3 (v1.4)
HDMI	HDMI 2.0b x 1
HDCP	2.2
Power Specifications
Connectors	8-pin x 1
Recommended PSU	450 W
Consumption	125 W
Display Option
Multi Display	4
Application Programming Interfaces
DirectX	12 API
OpenGL	4.5
Physical Specifications
Dimensions	204 x 128 x 42 mm
Others	WEIGHT (CARD / PACKAGE) 669 g / 1028 g G-SYNC® TECHNOLOGY: Yes
Warranty
Manufacturing Warranty	02 years