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The GTX 1660 Super has a launch price of just $230 USD with comparable performance to the $280 USD 1660 Ti. The 1660 Super has 14 Gbps GDDR6 (versus 12Gbps GDDR6 for the 1660 Ti and 8Gbps GDDR5 for 1660). The 1660 range of cards sits in the sweet spot for many gamers because they offer superb 1080p EFps in popular titles and they are relatively hassled free in terms of noise, compatibility and stability. The 1660S also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Shop prices will determine which 1660 series card represents the best value over time but at today's prices, the 1660 Super effectively undercuts the 1660 Ti by $50 USD thus challenging the RX 590 in terms of overall value at 1080p. The next step up from the 1660S would be to the $325 RTX 2060. [Oct '19 GPUPro] Poor: 65%Average: 69.9%Great: 74% Popular builds with this GPU MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02) (2,5...

The GTX 1660 Ti the latest mid-range and mid-priced graphics card for gamers, succeeding the now two-year-old GTX 1060 6GB. As NVIDIA has tried to imply with their naming convention, the performance of this 16 series GPU lies somewhere between their 10 series and 20 series but the 16 does not contain any of the recent RTX cores, which given the lack of RTX ready games, by itself is no hindrance at all. The 1660 Ti features a new TU116 Turing based die, 6GB of VRAM, 1536 CUDA cores and has a 120W TDP which is a remarkably low power draw for its performance. The reference GPU clock speeds are 1500MHz and 1770MHz for the base and boost respectively, and manufacturer overclocked speeds will be higher. The 1660 Ti also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Early benchmarks show that the 1660 Ti has a clear 33% effective speed advantage over its $60 cheaper 1060 6GB predecessor and that i...

The Nvidia GTX 1650 Super features 12Gbps GDDR6 up from 8Gbps of GDDR5 on the “not super” GTX 1650. With a launch price of just $160 the 1650S is aimed squarely at AMD’s 500 series cards. Comparing the GTX 1650S and the RX 590 shows that the 590 leads by 3% but the 1650S is around 10% cheaper. The 1650S has a TDP of 100W which is 50% lower than a typical AMD 500 series card. With a lower TDP, the 1650S requires a less demanding thermal solution and therefore runs a lot quieter. Nvidia’s top value offering prior to the 1650S was the $70 more expensive 1660S which is around 18% faster but also 40% more expensive than the 1650S. Although the 1650S promises to shake up, if not dominate, the value end of the GPU market, street prices are ultimately king. Further price cuts could, once again, bring AMD’s 500 series back into the game. [Nov '19 GPUPro] Poor: 54%Average: 58.3%Great: 62% Popular builds with this GPU Gigabyte B450M DS3H (1,014) Asus PRIME B450M-A (528) Asroc...

The GTX 1660 Super has a launch price of just $230 USD with comparable performance to the $280 USD 1660 Ti. The 1660 Super has 14 Gbps GDDR6 (versus 12Gbps GDDR6 for the 1660 Ti and 8Gbps GDDR5 for 1660). The 1660 range of cards sits in the sweet spot for many gamers because they offer superb 1080p EFps in popular titles and they are relatively hassle-free in terms of noise, compatibility and stability. The 1660S also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Shop prices will determine which 1660 series card represents the best value over time but at today's prices, the 1660 Super effectively undercuts the 1660 Ti by $50 USD thus challenging the RX 590 in terms of overall value at 1080p. The next step up from the 1660S would be to the $325 RTX 2060. [Oct '19 GPUPro] Poor: 65%Average: 69.9%Great: 74% Popular builds with this GPU MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX (MS-7C02) (2,52...

While the 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU “Delta” platform with NVSwitch got a lot of airtime during the Ampere launch, it was not the only platform being launched today by NVIDIA. The 4x GPU “Redstone” platform is a smaller NVLink mesh platform that is designed to be a lower-cost option. The NVIDIA A100 “Redstone” HGX platform is important since it is a smaller and less complex version of the HGX A100 platform. The Redstone platform incorporates 4x SXM NVIDIA A100 GPUs onto a PCB. As we saw with the Tesla A100 overview, the new GPUs have 12x NVlinks per GPU. Each NVLink provides 50GB/s of GPU-to-GPU bandwidth for 600GB/s total. Redstone takes those 12 NVLinks and splits them into three groups. Instead of the NVIDIA NVSwitch solution we see on the HGX A100 platform, we get a mesh topology without switching. NVIDIA has offered both switched and non-switched systems for some time. This type of topology, NVIDIA has been using for years and is the basis for many important compute nodes. For ...

 Dell EMC is bringing a new GPU-as-a-Service or GPUaaS offering to the market. Underpinning the GPU hardware, Dell EMC is leveraging software from VMware as well as the Bitfusion acquisition to help drive adoption and utilization of accelerated computing. With the solution, instead of targeting those leading companies that have already deployed an AI or HPC solution, Dell EMC is hoping to capture the next wave of adoption by making the task easier. Dell is using this graphic to frame the conversation. If we think of 14.6% of the market using AI today, they are the early adopters who are leaders in the field. Still, that leaves 85.4% of the market that are not leaders and that Dell hopes to service with their solutions. Dell Brings Turnkey GPUaaS for AI and HPC As part of the Dell Technologies strategy, it is leaning on its VMware integration to bring GPU accelerated AI and HPC to vSphere. One will notice that while the company is saying it is for HPC, this is not for high-p...