NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Review Ft. MSI, GALAX & PNY – $249 Would’ve Made This GPU Perfect

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series - GeForce RTX 4060

For the GeForce RTX 4060, NVIDIA is expected to utilize the AD107-400-A1 GPU, the fully enabled AD107 Ada die. Do note that the same configuration is used by the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. The chip is expected to feature 3072 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 17 Gbps memory speeds across a 128-bit bus interface. That gives the card 272 GB/s bandwidth which is effectively rated at 453 GB/s or 26% more than the RTX 3060. That's all thanks to the 24 MB of L2 cache.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 should end up with a 35% lower TGP than its predecessor, the RTX 3060 12 GB. The card is said to feature a 115W TGP but actual gaming power consumption should be around 110W with idle power rated at 7W and video playback power rated at 11W. The card will be available in various custom models at launch but there will be no Founders Edition variant for it.

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB "Official" TBP - 115W
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB "Official" TBP - 170W

 

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Cards Performance

NVIDIA plans to bring the RTX and DLSS advantage to a wider audience. In one of the recent slides, the company illustrates how 79% of RTX 40 gamers play their games with DLSS On, and 83% of RTX 40 gamers play their games with RT On. That means that every 8 out of 10 RTX 40 GPU owners are benefitting from Ada's latest technologies & there are 400 RTX games and applications that users can take advantage of.

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However, these premium features come at a cost and during the pandemic, we saw heightened prices across all GPUs. That is why the very older GTX 16, GTX 1060, and RTX 2060 series still show up at the top of the lists at Steam Hardware Survey with 77% of the gaming base playing at 1080p or less. So NVIDIA is deciding that they want to give the mainstream gamer the value back & make them upgrade to a better GPU in the form of the RTX 4060 which also delivers a nice 20% boost vs the RTX 3060 in standard rasterization and up to a 70% boost with DLSS 3 enabled.

But another major factor discussed by NVIDIA is the power savings that come with the RTX 4060. Anyone using a GeForce RTX 4060 will reduce their power bills by a large fraction thanks to Ada's highly efficient design. This will allow users to rack up to $130+ US in savings (depending on the region) over a period of 4-years. And since most of the 60-series gamers have an upgrade cycle of 4-5 years, that would mean that they will have enough savings in their hands to cover a quarter or even up to half the cost of the next-gen mainstream purchase.

For $299 US, you are getting up to a 70% increase (with DLSS 3) and a 20% increase (without DLSS) over the RTX 3060. Now the thing about the RTX 3060 is that while it did pack a higher VRAM of 12 GB & a wider bus interface, all the memory management technologies we talked about in the RTX 4060 Ti article apply to the RTX 4060 which means it carries up to 24 MB of L2 cache which is once again, an 8x uplift over the RTX 3060.

So while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 did pack more VRAM & a wider bus, the RTX 4060 is still faster at 1080p, & the difference that the higher L2 cache makes really shows in the 1% Low FPS where the lead over the RTX 3060 widens even more.

A Great 1080p Package With All The RTX Features You'd Ever Want

So summing up today's announcement, I think the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards are really for users who are looking to upgrade their older GTX 1060 or RTX 2060 series cards. They do offer some amazing features with over 400 RTX titles and 300+ DLSS titles including 50 DLSS 3 titles and more that are on the way.

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You get NVIDIA Studio support for content creation readiness, AV1 hardware & great AI generative performance thanks to those powerful tensor cores. NVIDIA will be leveraging its AI hardware for more advanced features such as Neural Rendering in future DLSS 3 updates, Neural Textures, and much more to come. The NVIDIA GeForce ecosystem & Game Ready driver updates are a major plus to recommending an RTX card to gamers too.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specs:

Graphics Card Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GPU Name	Ada Lovelace AD102-300	Ada Lovelace AD102-250	Ada Lovelace AD103-300	Ada Lovelace AD104-400	Ada Lovelace AD104-250	Ada Lovelace AD106-350	Ada Lovelace AD107-400
Process Node	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N
Die Size	608mm2	608mm2	378.6mm2	294.5mm2	294.5mm2	190.0mm2	146.0mm2
Transistors	76 Billion	76 Billion	45.9 Billion	35.8 Billion	35.8 Billion	22.9 Billion	TBD
CUDA Cores	16384	14592	9728	7680	5888	4352	3072
TMUs / ROPs	512 / 176	TBD	320 / 112	240 / 80	184 / 64	136 / 48	TBD
Tensor / RT Cores	512 / 128	456 / 128	304 / 76	240 / 60	184 / 46	136 / 34	TBD
L2 Cache	72 MB	72 MB	64 MB	48 MB	36 MB	32 MB	24 MB
Base Clock	2230 MHz	2280 MHz	2210 MHz	2310 MHz	1920 MHz	2310 MHz	1830 MHz
Boost Clock	2520 MHz	2520 MHz	2510 MHz	2610 MHz	2475 MHz	2535 MHz	2460 MHz
FP32 Compute	83 TFLOPs	TBD	49 TFLOPs	40 TFLOPs	29 TFLOPs	22 TFLOPs	15 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs	191 TFLOPs	TBD	113 TFLOPs	82 TFLOPs	67 TFLOPs	51 TFLOPs	35 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs	1321 TOPs	TBD	780 TOPs	641 TOPs	466 TOPs	353 TOPs	242 TOPs
Memory Capacity	24 GB GDDR6X	24 GB GDDR6X	16 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	12 GB GDDR6X	8-16 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Speed	21.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	23.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	21.0 Gbps	18.0 Gbps	17.0 Gbps
Bandwidth	1008 GB/s	1008 GB/s	736 GB/s	504 GB/s	504 GB/s	288 GB/s (554 GB/s Effective)	272 GB/s (453 GB/s Effective)
TBP	450W	425W	320W	285W	200W	160-165W	115W
Price (MSRP / FE)	$1599 US / 1949 EU	12,999 RMB (China-Only)	$1199 US / 1469 EU	$799 US	$599 US	$399-$499 US	$299 US
Price (Current)	$1599 US / 1859 EU	12,999 RMB (China-Only)	$1199 US / 1399 EU	$799 US	$599 US	$399-$499 US	$299 US
Launch (Availability)	12th October 2022	28th December 2023	16th November 2022	5th January 2023	13th April 2023	24th May / 18th July 2023	29th June 2023

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