10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

While some games have more powerful requirements than this GPU, the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition is only really challenged by the most demanding games released today, but normally it is more than capable of running games with a stable frame rate at 1080p.

GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 716 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 98 FPS, Medium: 77 FPS, High: 52 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We proceeded to look at Forza Horizon 5 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 37 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

One of the growing popular screen resolutions for PC gaming is the wider 1440p. So we wanted to see how well the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition performed at 1440p by taking a look at some of the current popular games. First we looked at Resident Evil 8 and saw it deliver playable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 75 FPS, Medium: 59 FPS, High: 40 FPS and Ultra: 28 FPS. We then checked the performance on Forza Horizon 5 to see if that runs well. It was playable with a 28 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition we get the impression that it is a suitable graphics card for this larger screen res. In some cases we might expect some graphics option tweaks down from Ultra to High to help improve FPS stability when gaming at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition in your PC? Upgrade time for this GPU is currently placed at 2 years

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition? There are no graphics cards on the current market that would provide a big enough increase in performance to warrant upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming X 6G Edition.