10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 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.

We take a look at game performance achieved on this graphics card when running 2023 popular games. This short GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB game hardware review looks at the graphics card frame rate performance on Ultra graphics settings at 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions. Of the 1000 most demanding recommended specs found in game requirements today, this gpu is more powerful than the graphics requirement of 800 games in todays list.

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB graphics card is returning a playable performance on Battlefield 2042 at 1080p of 37 frames per second at Ultra graphics settings. Another popular title that is good to benchmark graphics cards against is Dying Light 2 which we saw got reasonable frame rates of 45 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.

With PC gamers looking for larger screen sizes like 1440p we tested the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB by playing Battlefield 2042 which yielded a playable performance. Its FPS results for the graphics settings are as follows - L: 73FPS, M: 58FPS, H: 39FPS, U: 28FPS. Another popular game we tested with this card was Dying Light 2 and that was playable. This graphics card delivered 34 FPS at Ultra 1440p. Another popular title was Resident Evil 8 which gets playable results with a 37FPS on Ultra 1440p. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB, this is not a bad choice for a larger screen size like this. Some games will struggle though, but with some careful graphic option adjustments in-game you can normally find a suitable visual experience with this GPU at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB in your PC? 2-3 years of top end gaming before an upgrade

Whats a good PC graphics upgrade for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gigabyte Windforce OC 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 Gigabyte Windforce OC 6GB.