Test Rig
For our tests, we used a new test rig which is comprised of an ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X Motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X at default clock speed of 3.6GHz (Boost at 4.4GHz), as well as 16GB GEIL Super Luce RGB DDR4-3000 ram in dual channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| Test Rig A | Test Rig B | |
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X @ 3.6GHz (Boost @ 4.4GHz) | Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.7GHz (Boost @ 4.7GHz) |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Master Liquid 240 AIO | Noctua NH-D15 Premium CPU cooler |
| Motherboard | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X | ASRock Z390 Taichi Motherboard |
| Ram | 16GB GEIL Super Luce RGB DDR4-3000 | 16GB GEIL Super Luce RGB DDR4-3600 |
| HDD | Patriot VPN100 512GB PCIE M.2 SSD | Adata SX 7000 240GB PCIE M.2 SSD |
| PSUC | Cooler Master V850 – 850W | Thermaltake 850W |
| VGA card | ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER AMP (6GB GDDR6) | ZOTAC Gaming GeForce GTX 1660 Ti AMP (6GB GDDR6) |
| Nvidia Drivers | Latest Game Ready Drivers – WHQL | Latest Game Ready Drivers – WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 | Windows 10 |
Firestorm Sofware
GPU-Z Information
Load Temperatures
At full load, the card reached a high of 60 degrees Celsius. Now that’s pretty good considering the high boost clock speed of 1845 MHz. It seems ZOTAC’s IceStorm 2.0 is really doing its job.
PassMark – Performance Test 9.0 (3D Test)
Test the speed of your 3D video card by selecting from options such as fogging, lighting, alpha blending, wire frame, texturing, resolution, color depth, object rotation and object displacement. Separate tests for DirectX 9,10,11 & 12. With support for 4K resolution.
