EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SC Ultra Gaming, 06G-P4-1067-KR, 6GB GDDR5, Dual Fan

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SC Ultra Gaming, 06G-P4-1067-KR, 6GB GDDR5, Dual Fan 

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SC Ultra Gaming, 06G-P4-1067-KR, 6GB GDDR5, Dual Fan 

ProsExcellent 1080p/60Hz gaming performance
Quiet under load
Very quiet
Affordable
EVGA's Precision X1 overclocking software is GREAT

ConsNo fancy extra features
Reasonable premium puts it close to entry-level GTX 1660 Ti GPUs
Only 1 DisplayPort and HDMI po

alright guys  our launch day reviews of 1660 super today we are back with another card this type is EVGA 1660 super SC ultra so this is a very compact dual fan card that also comes factory overclocked with an 18 13 megahertz rated boost clock on top of that the RGB haters out there will absolutely love this card as there is simply no lighting anywhere on the card as for pricing we were initially told that this is going to be an MSRP card so should have cost but looking online today so 

about  above MSRP if we kick off this review though with a look at the card itself and the overall shroud design we can see that EVGA is using a great plastic shroud it also has some holes in the shroud itself which definitely gives it a bit of a unique aesthetic but speaking personally I have to say I'm not too convinced about the kind of shade of gray that EVGA is using for the shroud to me I don't know there's just something about it just looks slightly off 

but obviously at his personal preference I just personally would have preferred a back shroud then again unless you mount this card vertically you're really not going to see it once it's installed in your case so I guess it doesn't matter too much we can also get a look at those two fans EVGA has fitted to the card initially I actually thought these were 100 millimeter fans just because they take up pretty much all of the space on the underside of the shroud but they are 

actually 19 millimeters across which is pretty standard for a dual fan card on top of that these fans do actually have a fan stop mode so when the car is just idling those fans do stop spinning which is a feature I always appreciate now as four dimensions we already mentioned that this is a very compact card and an actual fact it only measures 200 2.1 millimeters long and it's a hundred eleven point one five millimeters tall so it is definitely very very small and on top of 

that it's only a standard dual slot thickness so about 40 millimeters thick but to my mind really means it should fit in pretty much any case on the market ,moving onto the front side of the shroud now here we can see the EVGA and the geforce gtx logos but do bear in mind that these don't actually light up as they are simply no lighting anywhere on the card so they are just you know printed logos flipping the card onto its back cover we can also get a look at the full-

length metal backplate i stress the word metal ware because pretty much every card around this price point is either gonna have a plastic back plate or it's just gonna have no back plate whatsoever so the fact that you've j is actually fitted a metal backplate is definitely a positive point for me it just really gives the car a bit more of a premium feel in the hand and i also much prefer the look of the metal backplate we can also see that power requirements are standard for 

the 1660 super width:18px ER and then as for video display outputs we can see that EVGA has gone for one DisplayPort one HDMI and then one DVI opening up the card now we can get a look at the PCB and we can see that EVGA has gone for a three-phase vrn for the GPU and a two-phase vrm for the memory so that's the same configuration as pallets gaming OC pro speaking of the memory leaves sit under very thick film pads and remember it's DVD r6 for the 

1660s super and the modules are from micron lastly we can also get a look at the tu-16 GPU which is absolutely identical to the GPU use for the vanilla gtx 1660 as for the heatsink EVGA is using a single fin stack which has two thick 10 millimeter copper heat pipes the GPU dye itself also contacts with a copper cold plate but there isn't actually another culprit for the memory modules instead they contact directly with the fin sack via those thermal pads we 

already mentioned lastly it is also worth pointing out that there's actually no dedicated contact calling for the BRM instead the vrm relies solely on airflow from those two 90 millimeter fans for its cooling we reached out to EVGA about this just to kind of understand the thinking behind this decision and they basically told us in a nutshell that because the 1660s Reaper is a lower wattage the vrm can stay inspect without actually having any dedicated cooling with just 

getting airflow from the two fans well that is fair enough and I can understand the thinking there to me it does feel like a cost-cutting measure particularly when the pallet gaming Pro OC which is actually cheaper than the SC ultra that card actually has again dedicated cooling for the vrm so to my mind EVGA is actually cutting costs or kind of just trying to save a few pennies here and there by going with no dedicated cooling for the vrm so that is basically it for our look at the card itself but just how well does it perform well if we start with our 

temperature testing after a thirty minute five strike ultra of stress test the GPU core itself peak at 67 degrees so that is a very solid result even in the context of our other 16 supers it is two degrees hotter and then the pallet gaming pro OC but that really isn't much of a difference at all and it's not like 67 degrees is a bad temperature less impressive though is the noise levels of this card and that is for me the biggest downside to the SC ultra I measure you producing about 48 decibels of noise on our sound meter so it is a relatively loud card and that's actually four 

decibels louder than pallets Gaming Pro OC which is a noticeable difference to my mind EVGA is definitely having to compensate here for its lack of dedicated PRN cooling under load we actually saw the fans ramped up to 2,300 rpm so to me that does suggest that EVGA is kind of paying the price for its lack of dedicated vrn cooling as that vrm is solely reliant on airflow for its cooling the fans do have to spin a fair bit faster than they otherwise would and that does 

result in those high at noise levels more positive though is power draw as we actually saw the SC ultra pulled the least amount of power for all the three 1660 supercars we have tested it pulls about seven what's left and then the panic gaming Pro OC with a total peak system power draw of 189 watts at the walk moving on now to gaming performance for the card we'll start with a look at the SC ultras clock speed under load so again after 30 minute five straight ultra

 stress tests the core average eighteen ninety five mega so that is 65 ma gets faster than is rated boost clock that said it is actually slightly than the other two 1660 supers we have mentioned so the pilot actually run about 30 megahertz faster than that and the gigabyte gaming OC is about 50 megahertz faster that the SC ultra that different thing clocks we does actually translate perfectly into our games testing as of course every single title we tested the EVGA SC ultra was 

just marginally the slowest of the three 1660 super cards average across all of our games then versus the gigabyte gaming OC the EVGA proved two percent slow on average and up against the pallet the EVGA is one percent slow on average that means differences are only around two to three FPS in the real world so it's definitely not a massive difference the same can also be said when comparing this card with the 1660 ti as the EVGA SC ultra is just 4 percent slower 

on average so for me that really isn't enough of a difference to make a meaningful difference to your gameplay experience so that is definitely good news for the 1660s super other comparisons worth making also include the SC ultra up against the RX 590 which has recently you've seen prices drop as low  there the SC ultra does prove 15% faster on average than the rx 590 but then up against the RCX 2060 founds addition the 1660 super is still 17% slower on 

average as a final comparison as well up against Amy's Baking 56 the 1660 super is 14% slower so in a nutshell for me the 1660 super is best suited to 1080p gaming it can go away with some 1440p gaming depending on the title and if you do want to see our 1440p charts head over to kik goo net but by and large I think this card is best suited to 1080p gaming and actually in several other games we did see frame rates exceed 80 FPS so it could easily be paired with a 

high refresh rate monitor for a smooth gaming experience now as from manual overclocking our best result here for the SC ultra came with an extra hundred 60 megahertz added to the GPU core and then an extra nine hundred megahertz added to the g6 memory this actually saw our average clock speed under load come up from 1895 megahertz up to 2022 megahertz so 127 mega hurt increase when we retested a few of our games at 1080p with this overclocked dialed 

in we saw framerate improvements or between six and nine percent with gears 5 showing the biggest nights and improvement overall that is I guess pretty typical for a cheering card if you're getting at the lower end of that increase only 6 percent framerate improvements it's not huge but it's definitely better than nothing and like we said pretty typical for a turian card so then wrapping up this review I guess overall there isn't a whole lot more to say about EVGA 

1660 super Oetzi ultra it is pretty much as fast as we would expect for a 1660 super while it is the slowest of the three cars we've tested so far the difference between this and gigabytes gaming OC 60 is only about 2% on average and again versus the 1660 ti it's only 4% slower so considering started - is definitely much better value than the 1660 ti that being said I do think pallet 1660 super gaming pro C is a better buy than the SC ultra not only does it run cooler but is also noticeably quieter as well running about 4 decibels quieter and that is 

definitely where UGA pays the price for its lack of dedicated vrn cooling on top of that the pallet is actually the cheaper card so while that isn't a you know huge savings when you've got a card which is both cooler quieter and cheaper I definitely think that is the obvious choice if EVGA could bring prices down to MSRP which is actually where I wasn't initially told this 

card was gonna be then that would definitely help but currently at the moment if you want to spend on a new graphics card I do think 1662 burn particularly pallets gaming Pro OC is the way to go so that is prima for this review.

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SC Ultra Gaming, 06G-P4-1067-KR, 6GB GDDR5, Dual Fan 

 Nvidia's first non rtx GPU for 2019 gtx 1660 TI i said that right this time by the way now even though this thing can't run AI or ray-tracing operations it still offers some great value for gamers who don't see a point in paying a premium for the features that aren't just being used yet so that brings us to today's review which was almost late because of ups damn and I hate UPS I just I just I just really do but anyways it's finally here this my friends is the gtx 1660 non TI that is and it's starting price is which is pretty affordable if you think about it 

considering the gtx 1060 was launched at and the older gtx 960 was launched  since its release day it's also interesting to note that Nvidia's GTX 1060 and cards around this price point are the most popular right now on steams Hardware serwe so this is a very important launch so why don't we get into the review but AI a liquid CPU cooler now features this beautifully diffused RGB lining around the CPU block that can be customized via this control box or 

through your motherboard it covers 100% of the IHS plus it comes in two forty to eighty and three sixty millimeter variants learn more in the description down below now before I get to the benchmarks let's actually get into what the gtx 1660 is but at the same time if you just want to skip directly into performance I'll actually leave timestamps down in the comments also if you want to check out our GTX 1660 TI review and learn a little bit more about the architecture 

you can actually check that up right over here like I said in the GTX 1660 and 1660 TI video these new gtx cards use the 1290 meter tu1 1:6 core which incorporates all of the turin architectures improvements except the RT and tensor units that means RTX has been crossed out the spec sheet but performance in standard games gets a big post and media did this because AI and ray-tracing operations to be backed up by a huge amount of rendering power and that's something these lower price options just don't have so if you want rtx you'll need to 

spend a little bit more money and buy an RTX 2060 or a higher-end GPU the GTX 1660 specs are pretty interesting too it uses a cut-down version of the gtx 1660 ti score with a little over 1400 cuda cores and slightly higher clock speeds while the TDP remains at 120 watts the real difference here is with memory the 1660 still has six gigabytes and 192 bit wide interface but it uses gddr5 modules operating at 8 gigahertz instead of 12 gigahertz of GDD are 6 well that 

could cause memory bandwidth bottlenecks in some games I wouldn't be surprised if a bit of overclocking brings a stock GTX 1660 close to a GTX 1660 Ti unfortunately due to some other shipping issues I wasn't able to get a stock GTX 1660 in time for this review but EVGA ended up sending their XE ultra version personally I have mixed feelings about this card in terms of design but it's a lot better than the triple slot version that I looked at in our GTX 1660 and 1660 TI video even though the length is about 10.5 inches or 268 millimeters it'll fit into more small 

form factor cases - other than that turning the card over shows that EVGA has used a shorter PCB and then attached a massive cooler the overhang is protected by a small backplate but the design also means the power connector gets popped into an interesting location the rear i/o area is pretty straightforward with single outputs for DVI HDMI and DisplayPort it's nice to see DVI here since a lot of gamers looking for more affordable cards might not have a newer

 monitor and the last thing anyone wants to buy is another adapter the XC ultra version has also been pre overclocked by EVGA and its core runs about 60 mega is higher than the stock version that likely won't result in all that much performance especially since the memory sticks to a gigahertz the price is what might rip a few people up since this card will hit but EVGA will be offering a limited rebate at large bringing it to one thing I did notice 

during testing was that the boos clock constantly sat at nineteen sixty-five megahertz that's almost 100 megahertz higher than what a reference back 1660 TI hit so let's cut this short right here and get right on to the benchmarks as we run through these charts you'll basically see the same thing repeated over and over again the gtx 1660 outperforms the gtx ten succeed by a pretty big margin at both resolutions sometimes by over 25% but does that mean that he should

 be replacing the 1060 if you have one absolutely not but if you have a gtx 960 or an earlier GPU this will be a huge step up at a price that's really close to what you paid a few years ago another thing that's important to mention again is the EVGA card I'm using over here is pre overclocked but not by a huge amount I'm going to say that the increased clock speeds add between two or three percent at most to the scores versus a stock 1660 now when you compared 


to the 1660 TI performance is really variable at times they're pretty close with this new card in some other times it even comes close to the gtx 1070 performance levels but frame rates really aren't consistent across and retail in a few games the non TI models falls way too behind but that actually happens a lot more often at 1440p so the gap is likely due to the 1660s lower memory clock speeds you can actually see that situation pretty clearly in hell-blade rainbow 6 and witcher at 1080p then again at 1440p games like far cry 5 battlefield and even overwatch 

can be added to that list too particularly with the lower 1% of frame times against AMD cards the GTX 1660 is roughly equal to performance of an Rx 590 but that card almost consumes a ton more power and even costs a bit more right now I would be surprised if AMD further lowers prices on the RX 580 and rx 590 quickly moving on to power consumption this pre overclocked EVGA gtx 1660 XC ultra actually consumes a bit less than the gtx 1060 

superclocked and that just goes to show you how much Nvidia's new architecture and the 1290 meter manufacturing process are able to improve performance per watt so I guess it's time to wrap things up and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with Nvidia's new GTX series even though almost every one of the rtx cards felt overpriced the gtx 1660 ti and now the gtx 1660 really do feel like good values for their price points I wouldn't run out to replace a 10 series card with them but if you're coming from an older generation GPU they could be an awesome 

choice however I can say that the 1660 is perfect I mean if you look at the XE Ultra from EVGA in this case it's a premium over these stock GPU and that almost gets closer to what you would pay for a reference SPECT gtx 1660 ti also the gddr5 memory modules may cause some bottlenecks in some situations but from an overall perspective I think this is a pretty solid choice for the price so that pretty much wraps us up guys so let me know what you guys think about the gtx 1660 I mean if you're rocking a gtx 960 or perhaps a 760 would this be an 
upgrade in the pipeline for you guys let me know in the comments down below.



Learn more about the EVGA 06G-P4-1067-KR

ModelBrandEVGAModel06G-P4-1067-KR
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express 3.0
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerNVIDIAGPU SeriesNVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 SeriesGPUGeForce GTX 1660Boost Clock1830 MHzCUDA Cores1408
MemoryEffective Memory Clock8000 MHzMemory Size6GBMemory Interface192-BitMemory TypeGDDR5
3D APIDirectXDirectX 12OpenGLOpenGL 4.5
PortsHDMI1 x HDMI 2.0bMulti-Monitor Support3DisplayPort1 x DisplayPort 1.4DVI1 x Dual-Link DVI-D
DetailsMax Resolution7680 x 4320SLI SupportNoVirtual Reality ReadyYesCoolerDouble FansOperating Systems SupportedWindows 10 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bitThermal Design Power130WSystem RequirementsMinimum of a 500-Watt power supply
One available 8-pin PCIe power donglePower ConnectorOne available 8-pin PCIe power dongleDual-Link DVI SupportedYesHDCP Ready2.2
FeaturesFeaturesNVIDIA Ansel

All-Metal Backplate, Pre-Installed

NVIDIA GeForce Experience

NVIDIA Highlights

NVIDIA G-SYNC Compatible

Game Ready Drivers

Microsoft DirectX 12 API, Vulkan API, OpenGL 4.5

NVIDIA GPU Boost

Built for EVGA Precision X1
Form Factor & DimensionsMax GPU Length202 mmCard Dimensions (L x H)7.96" x 4.38"Slot WidthDual Slot.

EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 SC Ultra Gaming, 06G-P4-1067-KR, 6GB GDDR5, Dual Fan 

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