MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Featuring concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations, adaptive shading technology, and a new unified memory architecture with twice the cache of its predecessor, NVIDIA Turing shaders enable awesome performance increases on today's games. Get game ready with performance that rivals the GeForce GTX 1070 on the latest games with the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and 1660. Capture and share videos, screenshots, and livestreams with friends. Keep your GeForce drivers up to date. TURING SHADERS MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Featuring concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations, adaptive shading technology, and a new unified memory architecture with twice the cache of its predecessor, NVIDIA Turing™ shaders enable awesome performance increases on today's games. AWESOME PERFORMANCE Get game ready with performance that rivals the GeForce® GTX 1070 on the latest games with the MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Tiand 1660. GEFORCE EXPERIENCE Capture and share videos, screenshots, and livestreams with friends. Keep your GeForce drivers up to date. And optimize your game settings. GeForce Experience™ lets you do it all. It's the essential companion to your GeForce graphics card. PREMIUM DESIGN A fresh new dual fan design, VENTUS proudly displays its industrial shapes in neutral colors to fit any build. SOLID BACKPLATE Increases Toughness Of The Card To Prevent Bending While Complementing The Design. OC PERFORMANCE MSI OC Graphics Cards Are Equipped With Higher Clock Speeds Out Of The Box For Increased Performance. MSI Afterburner The Ultimate Overclocking Software With Advanced Control Options And Real-Time Hardware Monitor. VR Ready Certified To Provide The Performance Required For A Smooth Experience In Your VR Adventures. NVIDIA G-SYNC™ Gives You More Of What You Want In A Gaming Experience. Incredibly Smooth, Tear-Free Gameplay At Refresh Rates Up To 240 Hz. MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti VENTUS XS 6G OC Review Measuring 204mm x 128mm x 42mm and weighing 669g, the Ventus is a bit bigger than mini-ITX yet much more petite than triple-fan models that can be as much as 100mm longer. The shroud is constructed entirely from plastic and has enough angles and flared sections to offer a futuristic look. Ventus, it is good to know, doesn't feature a hybrid fan mode where the spinners turn off, though we're not concerned with that because the card is practically inaudible when doing not very much. You'll notice the card's height is a fair bit taller than the standard-sized I/O bracket. This isn't due to cooler overhang; rather, MSI uses a bigger PCB than is actually required. Knowing that the solitary 8-pin power connector is located along the top edge may cause the relevant PSU cable to brush up against the side panel on smaller chassis. Removing the heatsink is a piece of cake because it is held on by four screws. Doing so reveals a wider-than-normal PCB that's actually mini-ITX in length. It's the need to house this specific cooler that pushes the length out. MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti provides a specific heats ink for the VRMs and, going by the cooler, four thermal pads for the GDDR6 memory rated at 12Gbps. The single-heatpipe design - which makes good contact with the full-fat TU116 core - is disarmingly simple, though we feel the company misses a trick by not cooling the two memory chips at the bottom of the PCB. The rear section serves as a brace for the topside heatsink and is made out of plastic - the two combine to form a frame on the right-hand side. We'd normally like to see a metal backplate but view this one more as a protective cover for the rear of the PCB - there are no meaningful components to cool on the back.   ..