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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Review Megathread
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition (and MSRP AIB) reviews are up.
Below is the compilation of all the reviews that have been posted so far. I will be updating this continuously throughout the day with the conclusion of each publications and any new review links. This will be sorted alphabetically.
Written Articles
Babeltechreviews
The RTX 4060 Ti is compact and amazingly efficient compared to the RTX 30 series and its 40 series brothers. The idle fan stop is huge for us, and support for AV1 encoding is stellar for a lot of streamers at this price.
Not everyone cares about DLSS and its effect on an image. For this, he RTX 4060 Ti performed above the RTX 3060 Ti in most cases but barely at around 10% faster at 1080p. It was also well above the RTX 2060 but loses in almost every game to the RTX 3070 at 1440p.
However, the RTX 4060 Ti user base will see enough significant performance gains on 20 and 10 series cards to be able to make this a worthwhile consideration.
For a hundred dollars more you could buy an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB when it releases or a current AMD offering – for now but the rumor mill is swirling with a pending release. This would have been a slam dunk if there was no 8gb version and instead we had a $300-400 RTX 4060 Ti at launch. The lineup of cards would have been perfect and much more appealing to nearly every gamer.
We do implore you to look at our upcoming DLSS 3 comparison of the current generation. This technology is finally allowing Nvidia to realize the dream that has been ray tracing. We can now maintain great performance while having the full suite of RTX features on an mid-level card. Safe to say, we give the RTX 4060 Ti a wait and see recommendation. The RTX 4060 Ti 16gb and normal RTX 4060 in July should be interesting to compare!
Dexterto
The RTX 4060 Ti 8Gb is a GPU built on compromise. It does offer good performance in many titles, and can even perform at 1440p. For $399, your money extends further thanks to the DLSS 3 technology and other goodies like AV1 encoding. However, you have to know exactly what kind of resolution you are targeting ahead of time. Things like the smaller bus width, 8GB of VRAM, and small generational uplift are disappointing. DLSS 3 does go some way to smooth those issues over, but it’s not the be-all-end-all for graphics cards.
Digital Foundry Article
Digital Foundry Video
TBD
Guru3D
Despite its high pricing, this card has commendable capabilities in the Full HD space. The 32L2 cache ensures that performance metrics are fully adequate for this specific monitor resolution. Nevertheless, NVIDIA appears to be increasingly reliant on technologies like DLSS3 and Frame generation. It's prudent to maintain some vigilance here as the pendulum seems to be swinging rather heavily towards AI solutions for enhancing performance. Regarding the shader rasterizer engine aspect, this card merely meets expectations. NVIDIA sets the card's price at $399, a price point previously seen with the 3060 Ti. However, this is a reflection of the cryptocurrency mining era where prices soared due to artificial inflation, and for some reason, they remain high. Despite this, the card's overall performance for Full HD resolution is satisfactory and with the aid of DLSS assist, it even excels. A simple manual tweak allows users to gain an additional 5% performance from the card. This more competitively priced graphics card is becoming accessible to a broader base of end-users. While NVIDIA strongly advertises the DLSS technology as a revolutionary tool, we hope they won't neglect the significance of raw rasterizer shader performance in their future offerings. Performance may vary in situations less dependent on the CPU, potentially being slower in DX11 yet quicker in DX12. When compared to the Radeon Series 600/7000, the RTX 4000 exhibits superior ray tracing performance, indicating noteworthy progress in this domain. Furthermore, the DLSS3 + Frame generation technology enables the GPU to achieve exceptional outcomes in compatible games
As an objective assessment, the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB exhibits very respectable performance, especially within a Full HD and even 2560x1440 mindset. Its shader engine performance is satisfactory, and the addition of DLSS3 and frame generation aid substantially improves its functionality. NVIDIA continues to lead in raw Raytracing performance. This graphics card's 32MB L3 cache is particularly effective at this resolution, though cache misses can result in the system resorting to a narrower 128-bit wide bus with only 8GB of graphics memory. However, at QHD and UHD you're bound to run into memory limitations, also keep in mind that DLSS frame generation will consume VRAM when used. While this could potentially cause issues, the card seems to handle such scenarios well. The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB graphics card boasts enough performance, solid build quality, and appealing aesthetics. However, its pricing is a notable drawback. With a price tag of $399, it is considered far too expensive for a mainstream product. Considering the decline of the mining trend, many would expect a lower price point, ideally below $300, $250 even. But the regular 4060 will take that spot, we raise serious concerns as to what is happening with the graphics card market. Nevertheless, the RTX 4060 Ti series remains an attractive option for PC gamers. It delivers ample performance, particularly for QHD gaming when utilizing DLSS3 and Frame generation features. Additionally, it offers a mild overclocking capability. The founders edition showcases an appealing design, efficient cooling, and pleasant acoustics. Overall, it demonstrates commendable energy efficiency. Despite its strengths, the card's starting price of MSRP $399 is a deterrent for many potential buyers. The RTX 4060 Ti, positioned as a notable progression for users with significantly dated graphics cards, holds potential as an initial RTX choice for numerous gaming enthusiasts. While it is still a (barely) recommended choice for mainstream PC gamers coming from the GTX series, the disappointing price tag should be taken into consideration as a serious objection.
Hot Hardware
The MSRP for new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB cards starts at $399, which is on-par with the RTX 3060 Ti's launch price (and the 2060 Super's). In this price band, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a clear winner. It's slightly more expensive than the typical Radeon RX 6700 XT, but offers significantly more performance. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is much lower priced than the average GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, however, despite competing pretty well with that card. The 8GB of memory on this first GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will be off-putting for some gamers, but turning down some detail has always been a requirement for mainstream GPUs. And if that 8GB frame buffer is a deal breaker for you, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB will be available in July for $100 more.
All told, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti isn't going to be a particularly exciting upgrade for anyone with an RTX 3070 or better, but if you're still rocking that GeForce GTX 1060 or an RTX 2060-series card, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will be a massive upgrade, not only in terms of performance but in power efficiency and feature support. If you're considering a mainstream GPU upgrade and have 400 bucks budgeted, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti would be a fine choice. If, however, you can save up some additional coin, the GeForce RTX 4070 is a big step up in performance if you, can swing it.
Igor's Lab
Of course, an assessment is always subjective and the price will certainly have to play a role. But to put it emotionless: You almost get the gaming performance of a GeForce RTX 3070 with 75 watts less power consumption. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which costs 439 Euros (RRP), also just undercuts the RTX 3070 with a current street price of 450 Euros. Whereas the RTX 3070 had an MSRP of 499 Euros at that time.
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is at least 9 percentage points faster than the RTX 3060 Ti 12 GB and it needs 60 watts less than the predecessor. Which brings us to the demand that the cards should not only be faster, but also more efficient. This is exactly the case here. You save over 30 percent in electrical energy and are at least 9 percent above the performance of the old card, which had an RRP of 399 euro at the time, but currently costs at least 415 euro. Thus, inflation also has an impact. However, this makes the old card completely obsolete. And there is somehow a monetary standstill.
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with the AD104-351 is a cleverly placed card in the lower mid-range that doesn’t have to fear any direct rivals from AMD in this generation, which is unfortunately also noticeable in the price. In terms of efficiency, NVIDIA once again sets standards that AMD really has to be measured against. If and when the RX 7700 series will come and if we will see 16 GB or 12 GB memory expansion again, that is still up in the stars. But gamers live in the here and now and there are simply no alternatives at the moment if you want the complete feature set including high-quality super sampling and AI. Because the Radeon RX 7600, which will be launched tomorrow, should be significantly slower (if the performance rumors are true)
Except for the outdated Display Port connector and the meager 8 GB memory expansion, I hardly see any drawbacks that would speak against this card in the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. Except for the price, but that is unfortunately exactly where the comparable offers are. Thus, the big miracle is once again missing. New costs almost as much as old and you have to look for the added value at the socket and can at least be happy about a bit more performance. That is something in today’s times, since the demands on sensations have already been reduced. The bottom line is that it fits and if the street prices come into play even more, it will even be considerably cheaper.
KitGuru Article
Kitguru Video
Just stopping to think on what this GPU is capable of gives me a tinge of regret. It's genuinely a technical marvel that Nvidia has been able to take the AD106 GPU, a die that's less than half the size of GA104, and yet it outperforms it while offering vastly improved efficiency. This could have been a fantastic entry-level GPU, as befitting its die size, but at £389, AD106 is in a different class entirely.
At that price point, we may as well come out and say it – 8GB VRAM simply does not cut it anymore. We covered this topic extensively in our video review, but for this class of product, such a meagre frame buffer is an absolute dealbreaker in 2023. That's not to say 8GB VRAM is useless or won't run new titles, but the way the industry is going, 8GB GPUs really need to be considered entry-level in my opinion, RTX 3050-type products which target 1080p gaming at Medium or High settings. Not something that's almost £400 and in this performance tier.
I also think it's important to distinguish between game benchmarks and the actual experience of playing a brand new title on day 1. Many reviewers, myself included, test more mature games that have finished their update cycle – this provides us with the stability we need when trying to benchmark dozens of GPUs, while also mitigating the potential of having to restart our testing due to a new patch that significantly changes our results. From that perspective, plenty of 8GB cards could still be considered viable, at least for 1080p max settings as indicated by the bulk of our benchmarks today.
The real problem for 8GB cards has been well and truly exposed this year when trying to play a number of new titles on launch day. The Last of Us Part 1, Forspoken, Callisto Protocol, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4 Remake… the list goes on. Poorly optimised ports or not, the fact remains there is a growing number of games where 8GB GPUs simply had a very rough time of things when trying to play at launch, and if this is happening now – what will things be like one, two, three years down the line?
Unfortunately, I think this is a very straightforward review to conclude – I can't in good faith recommend the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 8GB at its current asking price of £389. It's barely an improvement over its predecessor in terms of raw performance, its narrower memory interface reduces performance at higher resolutions, and 8GB of VRAM is simply not enough. The RTX 4060 Ti needs a hefty price cut to have any chance of viability considering its limitations.
LanOC
As far as performance goes, the RTX 4060 Ti, when tested at 1080p which is where Nvidia is targeting, runs right with last generations RTX 3070 but from AMD the RX 6750 XT does have 5 FPS on it on average across our tests. The problem you will run into with the RTX 4060 Ti is that if you go beyond 1080p up to 1440p or 4k the performance in comparison to the 3070 or even the 3060 Ti drops. Ada has its huge L2 cache which takes a lot of load off of the memory bus and that works really well. But because of that they have gone down to a 128-bit memory bus which works great at 1080p but that and the 8GB of VRAM start to get to their limits at the highest resolutions. That isn’t to say that in our testing 1440p or 4k wasn’t playable, it was. But if you are looking longer term and considering upgrading to a higher resolution monitor before your next video card upgrade, there are going to be better options that will offer that flexibility better. That said 1080p is still the most popular resolution by a HUGE margin and that is going to still be the case for a very long time. The RTX 4060 Ti also adds in DLSS 3 capabilities which in our testing gives huge performance improvements in the games that support it. Even in older DLSS 2 games the 4060 Ti saw bigger improvements than last generation's cards. I was also surprised with the compute performance, I expected it to be similar to the RTX 3070 but in Blender and Passmark’s GPU Compute test, it was outperforming the RTX 3070 Ti and running close to the RX 6800 XT.
In the end, the RTX 4060 Ti is in an interesting spot in the market. At its intended resolution it performs well. But like with the RTX 4070, AMD’s last generation of cards being marked down cause trouble when it comes to just per raster performance. DLSS 3 and its ray tracing capabilities help compete there. But once you get out past 1080p the performance drop brings this a little too close to the last generation 3060 Ti for me. That said for me, this might be the ideal card for my compact SFF LAN rigs. Its low power draw helps keep things cool and doesn’t require a giant card and I know for sure that I’m not going beyond 1080p for my LAN rig for a long time now because I don’t have any interest in dragging a larger monitor to events.
OC3D Article
OC3D Video
So far all of the Nvidia 4000 series cards have proven to be an unqualified success. It doesn't matter which card you go for, you'll be getting the kind of performance, in every title, that will leave you grinning. We know that purchasing something as expensive as a graphics card is a mighty investment, and you never want to be left wondering exactly what your outlay has got you that you didn't have before. Until now it didn't matter what game you wanted to play, or what setup you had, you could grab one of the 4000 series and be pleased with your purchase.
The RTX 4060 Ti is still good, but it's the kind of card that represents the tipping point where you have to have some qualifiers and caveat emptors that weren't there on the 4080 or similar. Price wise the RTX 4060 Ti comes in at around the same MSRP as the RTX 3060 Ti had at launch, and there is something of a performance increase just from raw hardware over that card, somewhere around the 8% mark. Not really enough to justify the outlay, particularly if funds are tight. Of course if you're running a RTX 2060 then you'll be blown away at how much faster the new card can run.
Where the waters get cloudier, or at least where you need to pay closer attention, is exactly what you're planning to play on the RTX 4060 Ti. If it's a title that relies solely upon hardware horsepower, such as Horizon Zero Dawn, then you could come away from this latest Nvidia offering feeling a little disappointed. Certainly in comparison to the feelings we got once we'd finished with the RTX 4080 or even RTX 4070 Ti. But, and it's a big, world pie-eating champion sized but, if your title of choice supports DLSS 3 then the difference between the 4000 cards and the 3000 ones is stark.
Now we know that it's difficult to say that the RTX 4060 Ti is a bad card as such, because it allows you to run those games which do support the newest Nvidia DLSS 3 and FrameGen technologies in all the buttery-smoothness you could hope to see. It's just that the list of DLSS 3 games isn't massive, and certainly there are some notable omissions, so if you're going to be just relying on the amount of oomph the card has just as it is, then you really need to pay close attention to the card you already own and how the RTX 4060 Ti compares.
Clearly if you're looking to start your Gaming PC owning journey and want to do so without getting on your knees in front of your bank manager, then the RTX 4060 Ti is a great starting place. If you already own a recent-ish graphics card and have specific games in mind, then you need to look a little closer at the nitty-gritty of things, which is a first for the 4000 series of Nvidia cards which have, until now, been wholehearted recommendations. If you have got a PC already then the Gigabyte Eagle and its use of the PCIe 8 pin power input might be enough to tip the balance towards that rather than the new-fangled power connector on the Nvidia card. The RTX 4060 Ti is still good, though we're just reaching the point where Nvidia have trimmed the hardware to fit a price point so much it's not the quantum leap forwards that the other cards in the Ada Lovelace range have been when compared to extant cards.
PC Perspective
Looking back only a few years, I think a card like the RTX 4060 Ti would meet expectations for a xx60 Ti card – which is to say that it effectively matches the performance of the previous-gen xx70 card, and adds current-gen features. But we live in the post-RTX 30 Series era now.
While many actual gamers were left empty-handed during the dark times (f*** Ethereum, anyway), the RTX 30 Series was a BIG upgrade over the RTX 20 Series, and list pricing was very good for the performance level.
My favorite card last generation was the RTX 3060 Ti, and for its elusive MSRP of $399 it was the card I would have bought with my own money. Think about this: it was faster than the $699 (and up) RTX 2080, cruising past heavyweights such as GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and Radeon RX 5700 XT. And this begs the question, was the RTX 3060 Ti too good? It certainly set expectations for the next generation of GeForce cards very high.
Seeing only modest raw performance gains over the previous generation xx60 Ti card here isn’t very exciting, but there are architectural improvements with the RTX 4060 Ti that stretch the lead to more impressive levels. I didn’t cover things like content creation, where this generation offers a better experience.
This card wants you to use DLSS 3 + FG, and if you get it, use this. Regardless of what you’ve watched (or possibly even read) about DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, the tech does greatly increase the framerates and perceived smoothness of games, and in games that support the DLSS 3 + FG combination the RTX 4060 Ti crosses into enthusiast 2560×1440 territory – at least based on the FPS numbers I was seeing.
Now, about that VRAM thing. 8GB is certainly a useful amount, but there have been multiple (and heavily-documented) examples of recent titles that want as much as they can get. I would love it if this card had 16GB, and while I could pontificate about public companies maintaining margins on products amidst rising component costs, the fact is that gamers don’t care about how well company X is doing. They all just want cheap GPUs with lots of VRAM, as far as I can tell.
The fact that a 16GB version of the RTX 4060 Ti will be made available is definitely a good move, but it isn’t coming until July. I would have loved to see it launch alongside this card, but the additional $100 for the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti does push it into a different market segment. We will have to wait and see if AMD answers with something compelling, and creates some pricing pressure. I think we’d all love to see a price break on components for this increasingly expensive hobby.
PC World
It all depends on your answer to the question posed right up top: Are you willing to pay $400 for a 1080p graphics card with 8GB of memory in the year of our lord 2023?
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti delivers absolutely outstanding power efficiency, leading ray tracing performance, modern AV1 encoding, and fast 1080p gaming for high refresh rate monitors, backed by Nvidia’s knockout software suite: DLSS 3 Frame Generation, Nvidia Reflex, RTX Video Super Resolution, and Nvidia Broadcast are just some of the killer features available to the RTX 4060 Ti, with DLSS 3 only being available on Nvidia’s newest GPU in this price segment. If you’re still on a GTX 1060 or RTX 2060, the RTX 4060 Ti will be a fantastic upgrade (albeit expensive).
The RTX 4060 Ti is also a deeply uninspiring upgrade gen-on-gen when it comes to raw GPU horsepower, only besting the RTX 3060 Ti by 9 percent at 1080p resolution and 7 percent at 1440p. It has fewer CUDA, RT, and tensor cores than its predecessor, which is disappointing. It flat-out loses to the RTX 3070 at 1440p, which is even more disappointing.
So: Are you willing to pay $400 for a 1080p graphics card with 8GB of memory in the year of our lord 2023? I’m not, especially with DLSS/FSR advantages minimized in this segment. (Given the RTX 4060 Ti’s overall performance, I don’t think the $500 16GB version will be very appealing when it launches in July either.)
That said, I’d hold my horses if I could. Nvidia already teased a $299 RTX 4060 with DLSS 3, AV1, and extreme power efficiency for July. Plus, the rumor mill is screaming that AMD could launch a $300 Radeon RX 7600 any minute now. That price point is a lot more palatable for 1080p gaming on 8GB if you don’t need Nvidia’s deep feature set.
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti would have been more appealing if it offered 16GB of memory for $399 and ditched the 8GB option, or offered 8GB of memory with the same level of performance for $300 to $325. As it stands, Nvidia’s RTX 40-series upgrades remain uninspiring at best and this GPU sadly falls into a no-man’s land of sorts. Look elsewhere.
TechGage
One thing to be clear about here is, the look we’ve taken at this RTX 4060 Ti so far has revolved entirely around creator. It may be that its gaming prowess is much more lucrative, and we do plan on investigating that more soon. A major selling-point of the RTX 4060 Ti is DLSS 3 + Frame Generation, and that’s one that doesn’t impact many on the creator side quite yet. Our experience with Frame Generation so far has been great, but as we called out in the intro, it’s best used when the baseline (+ DLSS) FPS is high enough that input latency won’t be a problem.
When most folks seek out a new GPU, they want the satisfaction of knowing that it will last them long enough until a substantial architectural upgrade comes along. What’s frustrating, then, is knowing that your GPU is capable of more, if only it weren’t held back by its framebuffer.
In this particular round of testing, we saw that the 8GB RTX 4060 Ti rendered Blender’s Charge project slower than the 12GB RTX 3060, but in scenarios where VRAM wasn’t an issue, it had the ability to inch ahead of the RTX 3070 Ti. We’ve seen in the past that even a simpler workload like Adobe Lightroom export can lead to the 12GB RTX 3060 outperforming technically superior (aside from VRAM) GPUs.
We’re still trying to properly assess whether or not 8GB can be declared a real issue for most people in reality, because not everyone creates complex projects that actually uses so much memory. But if you do create complex projects, encode really high-resolution video – or just plan to in time – you’re going to want to do yourself a favor and opt for more memory if you can.
We understand that GPUs are more expensive to produce than ever, but the RTX 4060 Ti feels more like a speed-bumped product than a proper upgrade, versus RTX 3060 Ti, and while Frame Generation is nice, it’s not going to matter if it doesn’t impact what you use a GPU for.
Overall, the RTX 4060 Ti isn’t a bad GPU; we just feel like the only thing holding it back in creator workflows is the 8GB framebuffer. We feel like we’ve finally reached the point where 12GB feels like the new sweet spot for creator workloads.
Techpowerup
Averaged over the 25 games in our test suite, at 1080p resolution, the RTX 4060 Ti is able to match last-generation's RTX 3070 and the older RTX 2080 Ti. The gen-over-gen performance improvement is only 12%, which is much less than what we've seen on the higher-end GeForce 40 cards. Compared to AMD's offerings, the RTX 4060 Ti can beat the RX 6700 XT by 8%, even though that card has 12 GB VRAM. The Radeon RX 6600 XT, Red Team's "x60" offering, is even 37% behind. With these performance numbers, the RTX 4060 Ti can easily reach over 60 FPS in all but the most demanding games at 1080p with maximized settings. Actually, the RTX 4060 Ti will capably run many games at 1440p, too, especially if you're willing to lower a few settings here and there.
As expected, ray tracing performance of RTX 4060 Ti is clearly better than its AMD counterparts. With RT enabled, the RTX 4060 Ti matches the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which is roughly two tiers above it. AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT is a whopping 30% slower. Still, I'm not sure if ray tracing really matters in this segment. The technology comes with a big performance hit that I find difficult to justify, especially when you're already fighting to stay above 60 FPS in heated battles.
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti comes with a 8 GB VRAM buffer—same as last generation's RTX 3060 Ti. There have been heated discussions claiming that 8 GB is already "obsolete," I've even seen people say that about 12 GB. While it would be nice of course to have more VRAM on the RTX 4060 Ti, for the vast majority of games, especially at resolutions like 1080p, having more VRAM will make exactly zero difference. In our test suite not a single game shows any performance penalty for RTX 4060 Ti vs cards with more VRAM (at 1080p). New games like Resident Evil, Hogwarts Legacy, The Last of Us and Jedi Survivor do allocate a lot of VRAM, which doesn't mean all that data actually gets used. No doubt, you can find edge cases where 8 GB will not be enough, but for thousands of games it will be a complete non-issue, and I think it's not unreasonable for buyers in this price-sensitive segment to to set textures to High instead of Ultra, for two or three titles. If you still want more memory, then NVIDIA has you covered. The RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB launches in July and gives people a chance to put their money where their mouth is. I'm definitely looking forward to test the 16 GB version, but I doubt the performance differences can justify spending an extra $100.
NVIDIA made big improvements to energy efficiency with their previous GeForce 40 cards, and the RTX 4060 Ti is no exception. With just 160 W, the power supply requirements are minimal, any beige OEM PSU will be able to drive the RTX 4060 Ti just fine, so upgraders can just plop in a new graphics card and they're good to go. Performance per Watt is among the best we've ever seen, similar to RTX 4070, slightly better than RTX 4070 Ti and Radeon RX 7900 XTX; only the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 are even more energy-efficient.
NVIDIA has set a base price of $400 for the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB, which is definitely not cheap. While there is no price increase over the RTX 3060 Ti launch price, the performance improvement is only 12%, and the mining boom is over—these cards don't sell themselves anymore. To me it looks like NVIDIA is positioning their card at the highest price that will still allow them to sell something—similar to their strategy in the past. Given current market conditions, I would say that a price of $350 for the RTX 4060 Ti would be more reasonable. Still, such high pricing will drive more gamers away from the PC platform, to the various game consoles that are similarly priced and will give you a perfectly crafted first-class experience that works on your 4K TV, without any issues like shader compilation and other QA troubles. For GeForce 40 series, NVIDIA's force multiplier is DLSS 3, which offers a tremendous performance benefit in supported games. Features like AV1 video encode/decode and (lack of) DisplayPort 2.0 seem irrelevant in this segment, at least in my opinion. Strong competition comes from the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT, which sells for $320, with only slightly less performance. That card also has a 12 GB framebuffer, but lacks DLSS 3 and has weaker ray tracing performance. I don't think I'd buy a $400 RTX 3070, or a $320 RTX 3060 Ti—I'd rather have DLSS 3. If you can find a great deal on a used card, maybe consider that. AMD is launching their Radeon RX 7600 soon, which goes after the same segment as the RTX 4060 Ti, if the rumors are to be believed, so things could get interesting very soon.
The FPS Review
If you are coming from an older GPU, such as a GTX-level video card, or a GeForce RTX 2060-level video card from 2019, the new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a good upgrade path for you. At $399 you are still shopping in the same price point you might have paid way back then, and will be getting a substantial upgrade in performance and features. If, however, you want to upgrade from a previous generation video card at this same price point, such as the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, the new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti does not have enough meat on the bone at this price point.
However, if you are coming from an equivalent video card from AMD in the last generation, such as the Radeon RX 6650 XT, then the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti offers a substantial upgrade. It will provide huge performance gains over the Radeon RX 6650 XT in pretty much everything. It will also provide playable and usable Ray Tracing image quality in games, something the Radeon RX 6650 XT could never deliver. It will also give you DLSS and DLSS 3 support, something that will be a big upgrade from any older GPU.
Therefore, if you are rocking a GPU from AMD’s last generation, or several generations past on the NVIDIA side, then the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti could potentially be a good upgrade path for you. It just depends on what you have, where you want to go, and the price point you want to stay at.
Tomshardware
Nvidia's RTX 40-series has been controversial for a variety of reasons, and the RTX 4060 Ti will continue that trend. It's not that this is a bad card, as the efficiency shows significant improvements over the previous generation. The price of entry, relative to the RTX 3060 Ti, also remains unchanged. The problem is that Nvidia's trimming of memory channels and capacity is very much felt here, and we can only look forward to similar concerns on the future RTX 4060 and RTX 4050.
The performance ends up being a bit of a mix, with native rendering showing only relatively minor improvements compared to the prior RTX 3060 Ti. There are even some instances where the new card falls behind — specifically, any situation where the 8GB VRAM and reduced bandwidth come into play.
Mainstream graphics cards are never the sexiest offerings around. In this case, we've had similar levels of performance from the RTX 3070 and 3070 Ti since late-2020 and mid-2021, respectively. Granted, those were both nearly impossible to find at anything approaching a reasonable price until mid-2022, so getting a replacement that's hopefully readily available will certainly attract some buyers. Just don't go upgrading from an RTX 3060 Ti, or you'll be very disappointed in the lack of tangible performance improvements.
As we mentioned earlier, we'd feel a lot better about the RTX 4060 Ti if it had 12GB of memory and a 192-bit memory interface. Nvidia likely decided to go with a 128-bit bus and 8GB of VRAM around the time the RTX 30-series was shipping, but we still feel it wasn't the ideal choice. At least there will be a 16GB 4060 Ti in July, but the extra $100 puts you that much closer to getting an even better card like the RTX 4070. Or maybe AMD will have a new generation RX 7700/7800-series card priced at $500 or less by then.
Anyone using a graphics card at least two generations old will find a bit more to like about the RTX 4060 Ti. It's not a huge boost in performance over the 3060 Ti, but it does come with some useful new extras, like AV1 encoding support. It's also a more compact card than a 3060 Ti, so it can fit in a smaller case, and it ran cool and quiet in our testing.
The bottom line is that you could certainly do worse than an RTX 4060 Ti. You could also do a lot better, if by "better" you mean "faster." Its just likely to cost you a whole lot extra to move up to the next faster Nvidia graphics card.