10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

Gamers upgrading will be considering the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 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.

Here we take a closer look at the various performances across 1080p, 1440p and 4K screen resolutions for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 6GB. In particular this is looking at the Ultra graphics settings to see what sort of FPS this graphics card can get across some of the more popular games played in 2023. This graphics hardware can run 800 of the 1000 most demanding PC games played today.

The 1080p FPS on Ultra for the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 6GB shows us that Days Gone is getting a good result of 64 FPS, and then we are seeing Forza Horizon 5 returning a reasonable 49 FPS while another game on our list is the Star Citizen which is predicted to get 72 frames per second at Ultra 1080p.

People are turning their increasingly more powerful graphics cards to the popular 1440p screen size so we tested the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 6GB to see how it performs on 1440p. First off we have looked at Forza Horizon 5 where it was playable. The frame rates it scored for the game presets were - Low: 99 FPS, Medium: 78 FPS, High: 52 FPS and Ultra: 37 FPS. We added Star Citizen to our research and predict it will be reasonable with a 55 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And then tested Days Gone which got 48 FPS at Ultra 1440p. In summary we feel the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 6GB running at 1440p is a solid choice of hardware for increased screen resolution gaming. We can see this graphics card is capable of delivering reliable frame rates at Ultra and certainly High graphics settings at 1440p.

How many years will the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 6GB graphics card play newly released games and how long until you should consider upgrading the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Armor 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 MSI Armor 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 MSI Armor 6GB.