10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB graphics card as a serious price to performance entry point. This card will meet and play most demanding AAA games and do so with good graphics setting as standard, and confidently pushing past the recommended game system requirements needed to run today’s games.

This card meets game requirements up to DirectX 12.

What FPS performance can the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB get on latest AAA 2023 games? In particular our game review looks at the FPS achieved running on Ultra graphics settings on the 1080p screen resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. This card runs recommended graphics requirements of 800 games from the top 1000 most demanding games being played today.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB graphics card is predicted to return a good performance on Star Citizen at 1080p of 72 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Forza Horizon 5 which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 49 FPS. A third game we can look at on Ultra at 1080p is the popular Resident Evil 8, which was getting 49 FPS under tests.

As the PC gaming masses explore larger screen resolutions we decided to run some game checks at 1440p across a few popular games. We predict the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB will run the upcoming game Star Citizen to a reasonable performance level. Predictions across the graphics settings looked like this, Low: 145 FPS, Medium: 114 FPS, High: 77 FPS and Ultra: 55 FPS. Another game tested was Forza Horizon 5, L: 99FPS, M: 78FPS, H: 52FPS, U: 37FPS. And then we checked graphics card performance on Resident Evil 8, which returned L: 99FPS, M: 78FPS, H: 52FPS, U: 37FPS at 1440p. Looking at a few of these 1440p results for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB we get the impression that it is one of the better graphics cards for gaming at this screen resolution. We will see 1440p Ultra and High settings across almost all current games.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB in your PC? No graphics card upgrade required for 2 to 3 years of meeting top end game system requirements

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 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 1660 Ti Gainward Pegasus 6GB.