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MSI’s GTX 1660 Super Gaming X proved that it is a more-than-capable 1080p ultra card, averaging over 80 fps across all 11 games. Most of these were well over 60 fps or very close to it outside of our resident GPU killer, Metro: Exodus. MSI’s card managed to be a hair (not noticeably) faster than the EVGA GTX 1660 Super SC Ultra. Compared to the 5500 XT 8GB, the MSI Gaming X 1660 Super runs about 22% faster. When looking at the next highest RDNA card in the 5600 XT, we found it to be almost 20% faster at 1080p and over 22% faster at 2560 x 1440.
Performance is one thing, but price is another. Nvidia’s GTX 1660 Super cards presented users with a worthwhile performance uptick over the non-super cards. The Super cards came in priced at $229 and up versus the non-super at $203-plus. This was fine upon release --welcomed actually,-- and made good sense in the market. But looking at things today, we have AMD’s 5500 XT at $179 and $199 for the 4GB and 8GB variants respectively, and most recently the 5600 XT starting at $279.
The latter, which is significantly faster than this MSI card, while starting at just $10 more as of this writing, makes the Gaming X --and all high-end GTX 1660 Tis-- a tough sell without a major price drop.
