Greetings fellow pilots,

I am currently using an Nvidia 1660 TI card in my PC box with an Intel 11700 CPU.

I am thinking of upgrading to a 3060 or a 3060 TI. what’s the communities opinion about this upgrade? Is it worth it?

as you may know, the 1660 has only six gigs of onboard memory. The 360 has 12, which I think will make a significant improvement in performance.

BTW, MY POWER SUPPLY IS 750 watts which  I THINK I WILL HAVE ENOUGH OVERHEAD.

Thanks for your thoughts and opinions

Sherm

I am running msfs with a 3060ti. At 1440 res, at times the card runs out of vram, so I need to keep the res at 1024 or keep msfs graphic settings at medium. This, of course, depends on the type of aircraft that you fly. Some airliners have a tough time with 8 gig of video card Vram.   I would not upgrade to a card having less than 12 gigs.

38 minutes ago, flyforever said:

"I am running msfs with a 3060ti. At 1440 res, at times the card runs out of vram, so I need to keep the res at 1024 or keep msfs graphic settings at medium. This, of course, depends on the type of aircraft that you fly. Some airliners have a tough time with 8 gig of video card Vram.   I would not upgrade to a card having less than 12 gigs."

 

I mostly fly the Manfred Jahn DC3 and the A2A CESSNA 182....I almost never fly a tubeliner, unless I am curious about experimenting.  Thanks for your input. Currently I keep res at 2048. My monitor is not HDR, so any greater resolution is not that  importancetto me.

Thanks

Sherm

 

The only combination I've found hard in VRAM is the TFDi MD-11 at LVFR SCEL. Even after reducing all TFDi textures to 2048 and the LVFR ones to 1024, I still got VRAM issues, until I disabled a DLL there. Apart from that, the 3060Ti I used to have did beautiful in P3D. What CPU do you have?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/just-usd109-nets-you-a-1000w-power-supply-from-asrock-knocking-almost-1-3-off-the-price-the-steel-legend-sl-1000g-has-plenty-of-power-to-throw-at-the-latest-and-greatest-gpus

thanks for the power supply suggestion, but my 750 watt workhorse is more than adequate...

Sherm

@shermank here are some comparisons for you that may help you decide.

This first link will show you the 1660 TI compared to the 3060:

UserBenchmark: Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti vs RTX 3060

And here's the comparison between the 1660 TI and the 3060 TI:

UserBenchmark: Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti vs RTX 3060-Ti

As you will see, both GPU's offer a big improvement over your current card.

My box has a clear glass panel on the side I need to remove to change components. so far, I haven't been able to get the panel off...Once I get past that issue, I will buy the card and install. Thanks for helping me on this.

 

Sherm 

On 11/5/2025 at 9:42 AM, shermank said:

Greetings fellow pilots,

I am currently using an Nvidia 1660 TI card in my PC box with an Intel 11700 CPU.

I am thinking of upgrading to a 3060 or a 3060 TI. what’s the communities opinion about this upgrade? Is it worth it?

as you may know, the 1660 has only six gigs of onboard memory. The 360 has 12, which I think will make a significant improvement in performance.

BTW, MY POWER SUPPLY IS 750 watts which  I THINK I WILL HAVE ENOUGH OVERHEAD.

Thanks for your thoughts and opinions

Sherm

I had the same vid card and went to 3060ti. It is worth the upgrade but don't expect a night and day scenario. I was able to crank up the settings a notch or two but not to full for scenery detail levels, lighting, and clouds. Haven't gotten any vram issues since the upgrade though.