NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
25th May, 2023Type
Graphics CardsPrice
$399 US+Conclusion - Ada's Pricing Goes Down & Efficiency Goes Up
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is here and it is designed to bring Ada Lovelace to the masses with a price of $399 US. An even more affordable version known as the GeForce RTX 4060 is planned to launch in the coming weeks for $299 US. With the RTX 4060 series, NVIDIA is aiming to majority of gamers who have been unable to upgrade due to two reasons, a short supply of GPUs due to crypto and the higher prices due to logistics and supply issues during the COVID era.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti retains the same pricing as its predecessor, the RTX 3060 Ti but the difference is that while the 3060 Ti was not available anywhere close to its MSRP at launch, the RTX 4060 TI is definitely available at MSRP, and not just that, you can find some nice custom models of the card too.
In our 20+ games that we benchmarked the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti through, the card came out ahead of the RTX 3070 across all titles while even managing to close in on the RTX 3070 Ti and that's a card that had retail pricing above $500 US. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti really flexes its muscles in 1080p where it shines and you can also get some amazing 1440p performance within a large selection of eSports games. Coupled with NVIDIA Reflex and new G-Sync 1000 Hz technology, eSports gaming on an RTX 40 series card is going to be a superb experience.
Plus, content creators get the power of AV1 encoding which allows for better-streaming quality & performance compared to NVENC and H.265/264 standards. But it doesn't stop there, the tensor cores on the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti make it a very disruptive solution priced below the $500 US GPU segment and offering bleeding-edge AI performance in generative AI workloads such as stable diffusion.
As for the feature set, Ada's faster DLSS and Ray Tracing capabilities do make for a very enticing offer. With DLSS 3, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti outperforms a 3090 Ti and as I mentioned earlier, the RT-heavy titles bring the card close to the RTX 3070 Ti at almost half the price of its MSRP. Once again, NVIDIA shows its architectural prowess by delivering insane amounts of efficiency on the RTX 4060 Ti. The card might be rated at 160W but it never went past 150W in actual gaming workloads. In reality, the card was closer to the 100-120W figure with only RT-intensive titles pushing it close to 140-150W. The RTX 3060 Ti consumes almost 50W more but the RTX 4060 Ti ends up around 15-20 percent faster.
The top-class efficiency and lower power consumption mean that you also don't have to worry about higher temperatures. All the cards I tested ran super cool with most designs even ending below the 60C mark. I was pleasantly surprised that all the custom models surpassed NVIDIA's FE with sub-60C temperatures so all of them are a worthy option especially when they can be bought at the same price as the MSRP of $399 US.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a more future-proof option considering the feature set it packs however, we cannot dismiss the recent price cuts on the Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT 16 GB cards. The Radeon RX 6800 series can now be found below $400 US which means they are cheaper to purchase versus the RTX 4060 Ti and offer 15-20% better rasterization performance. At the same time, those cards do run hotter, consume much higher power, and also lack the industry-leading AI and ray tracing performance that NVIDIA has to offer. The ray tracing performance on the RDNA 2 cards is only on par with RTX 20 series.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is an awesome card for its price point of $399 US, delivering the RTX Ada features at an affordable price point and offering a nice gen-on-gen improvement. It remains to be seen if the RTX 4060 Non-Ti can come in close distance to its Ti sibling as its $100 US lower price point can make it a better value. But for users running an older GTX 1060 or RTX 2060 series card, it is definitely time to upgrade to the new RTX 4060 series!
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About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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