GeForce GTX 1660 Ti: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti was 2019's value sweet spot — full Turing rasterization horsepower without the RTX price tag, and the first budget chip to carry 6 GB of GDDR6. The catalog matches 22 laptop models to it, with benchmarks in 156 games at 1080p. This guide covers what it delivers in 2026 and which used machines carry it.

Where the GTX 1660 Ti sits in 2026

A catalog score of 63.7 ranks the chip 67th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — upper mid-pack. The neighbors are an instructive mix of eras: the RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design (65.1) and RTX 1000 Ada (64.7) above, the professional RTX A2000 (64.4) alongside, and the RTX 3050 (63.1), Radeon RX 7700S (63.2) and even the RTX 3070 Ti's laptop record (63.6) below or beside it. That last pairing is a reminder that catalog scores blend many laptop implementations — power-limited newer chips and well-fed older ones land in the same band. On pure numbers, this 2019 part still outranks ordinary modern entry offerings.

What the chip brings

The TU116 die on a 12 nm process brings 1,536 shader cores, 6 GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus with 288 GB/s of bandwidth, about 4.1 TFLOPS and an 80 W thermal design. The GTX branding carries the expected omission — no ray tracing cores, no DLSS — but the 6 GB memory pool is the quiet advantage over the GTX 1650 class, keeping modern medium-settings textures comfortable. Public benchmarks sit around 12,600 PassMark points, a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 5,700 and Fire Strike near 14,800, with CUDA support for compute work on the side.

FPS in games at 1080p

The esports catalog runs wide open: Rainbow Six Siege at 201 FPS on the high preset, Valorant 209, Rocket League 209, CS:GO and Overwatch 240, FIFA 22 215, Fortnite 120 and Counter-Strike 2 147. The mid-generation AAA catalog plays at high settings: the Witcher 3 at 103, Battlefield V 111, Shadow of the Tomb Raider 114 rising to 144 on medium, Far Cry 5 93, Apex Legends 102 rising to 120, Forza Horizon 5 107, Escape from Tarkov 117 and Diablo 4 113 rising to 129. The modern heavyweights need medium settings: Cyberpunk 2077 posts 86 on high and 57 on medium records, Elden Ring 57, God of War 52 rising to 66, Hogwarts Legacy 48 rising to 62, Baldur's Gate 3 54 rising to 63, and The Last of Us 42.

Laptops that carry it

The 22-model roster is pure budget-gaming territory, concentrated in 2020–2022. Acer Nitro 5 machines (AN515/AN517 variants) ask $590–$737; MSI's GF65 and GF75 Thin sit at $590; HP's Omen 15 (2021 AMD) also asks $590; Dell's G5 5500 (2020) at $680. The interesting outliers are the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401 and Acer Predator Triton 300 SE from 2021 — premium compact chassis carrying this value chip, both at $590. Roster medians tell a balanced story: gaming index 65, 46 games clearing recommended settings, and an overall roster score of 72.5.

Bottom line

The GTX 1660 Ti is the classic used-market overachiever: too old for ray tracing, but with enough rasterization muscle and 6 GB of memory to keep a 2026 game library playable at sensible settings. At $590–$737 across Nitro 5, GF65 Thin and Omen 15 listings, it undercuts RTX 3050 machines while outranking them on raw numbers — the catalog's compare pages against the 3050, 3060 and 4060 make the trade-offs explicit. Buy it for high-frame-rate esports plus medium-settings AAA; skip it if ray tracing and DLSS are requirements. For the price of a dinner out, it remains one of the best entry points into used gaming laptops.