10 Aug 2021 - Graphics card reviewed

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

Lets look at the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Ventus XS OC 6GB game performance guide for some of the biggest games played in 2023. In particular we will see how well this graphics card runs on Ultra settings on 1080p resolution as well as 1440p and 4K. When considering how well this graphics card can run the 1000 most demanding games available today it can best 800 of the games’ recommended graphics requirements.

Looking at some of the modern popular games people are playing today the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Ventus XS OC 6GB is running Back 4 Blood and delivering good performances on 1080p Ultra, getting 73 frames per second. Comparing this to Star Citizen which is predicted to get good results, where it averages 73 FPS. Another popular game we looked at is Forza Horizon 5, which is running at 49 frames per second.

Next up we increase screen res tests to accommodate the growing in popularity 1440p screen size. So we booted up Back 4 Blood to see how the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Ventus XS OC 6GB dealt with it. It scored up a reasonable series of FPS results across these graphics presets - Low: 146 FPS, Medium: 115 FPS, High: 77 FPS and Ultra: 55 FPS. Next we looked at Star Citizen which we predict will be reasonable with a 55 FPS at Ultra 1440p. And finally looked at Forza Horizon 5 that got an Ultra 1440p FPS of 37. After a look at the popular games running at 1440p with the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti MSI Ventus XS OC 6GB, this is certainly a good graphics cards for this increased screen resolutions. It can confidentantly get High or Ultra graphics settings across almost all current games at 1440p.

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