10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

This graphics card offers upper mid level gaming performance. The GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB GPU could struggle if it was to try and run the most demanding games available today, but it meets a lot of game system requirements found in today’s games.

GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB is capable of DirectX 12 gaming requirements.

Here is a quick game performance synopsis for the AAA games played in 2023. In particular we focus on how well the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB runs at Ultra graphics settings and what frames per second it is getting at 1080p, 1440p and 4K monitor resolutions. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 602 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

First we looked at 1080p resolution for the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB performance to explore what sort of benchmarks it would achieve on the popular title Back 4 Blood and saw it deliver reasonable frames per second across the following graphics settings - Low: 150 FPS, Medium: 119 FPS, High: 80 FPS and Ultra: 57 FPS. We proceeded to look at Forza Horizon 5 to see how that compared and saw that it returned a playable 35 FPS at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Back 4 Blood where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 115 FPS, Medium: 90 FPS, High: 61 FPS and Ultra: 43 FPS. We added Forza Horizon 5 to our tests and saw it was playable with a 27 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Resident Evil 8 which got 27 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Gaming at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB is a perfectly suitable selection of hardware for theis larger screen size. If a game at 1440p struggles a bit or experiences a frame drop then you can tweak settings in game to help get it stable. This might mean lowering it to medium or low in some specific options.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB in your PC? There is still 2 years of top end gaming left in this GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1060 MSI Gaming 6GB? 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 6GB.