NVIDIA published The official benchmark results for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card have been announced just one week before its launch on June 29th. The new $299 Ada Lovelace-based graphics card is shown to be faster across the board than its predecessor based on the Ampere architecture. But there are pitfalls. Newcomers see the greatest benefit with AI frame generation enabled. According to Nvidia, it’s only 20% faster without it.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card is based on the AD106 GPU with 3072 CUDA cores enabled and has a peak computing throughput of 15 TFLOPS in FP32, compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 with 13 FP32 TFLOPS. and only 15% more expensive. However, the AD106 has significant advantages over the GA106 in the form of significantly improved ray tracing performance (+40%) and Tensor compute throughput (+137%). The latter can be used for AI, advanced DLSS 3 upscaling, and AI image generation workloads. Let’s see if it’s good enough to be one of the best graphics cards out there.
We can only speculate why Nvidia decided to balance the Ada Lovelace microarchitecture in a balanced way, but the advantages the company needs to outperform its predecessors and competitors in gaming (DLSS 3 and AI image generation) is obvious.
That said, it’s particularly surprising that Nvidia has demonstrated a GeForce RTX 4060 with DLSS 3 and image generation enabled in as many games as possible, showing dramatic performance gains compared to the GeForce RTX 3060. not. This is certainly a big improvement in the new version. The GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card can deliver high frame rates with all the eye candy enabled in modern games, which his GeForce RTX 3060 cannot.
The company admits that not all games support AI frame generation, only the GeForce RTX 4060 is 20% faster than the previous generation. A 20% improvement is still not bad, but not what you would expect from a new generation of products based on a completely new architecture.
Nvidia sees the lower power consumption of the GeForce RTX 4060 as another cost-saving benefit of the new board. However, this advantage is not as obvious as the performance improvement.
Major graphics card makers including Asus, Colorful, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, Inno3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac will launch GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards starting June 29th. His Nvidia recommended price for the GeForce RTX 4060 board is $299. , but products with different prices are expected as well.
