Today, Nvidia cards not only aim to offer maximum performance in a certain resolution, 1080p in the case of the 4060 range, but they are also the gateway to the company’s technologies. The big draw of the 40 series is being able to use DLSS3 rescaling and reconstruction technology. This technology is especially important on a graphics card like the RTX 4060, as it allows you to play at 1080p with ray tracing and all settings maxed out. It should also be able to go up to 1440p with some small sacrifice. This an RTX 4090 (which costs four times as much) does it without the need for DLSS3.
Nvidia has only shared performance data at 1080p, so we’ll have to wait for the reviews to really know how the RTX 4060 range performs at both this resolution and 1440p. The numbers offered by the company itself tell us that there will not be an extraordinary leap compared to the RTX 3060 or RTX 3060 Ti, unless the DLSS3 to which only the 40 series has access is activated. The analyzes should also indicate if a Today 8 GB of VRAM and a memory interface width of 128 bits are sufficient.
The specifications of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti tell us that we are looking at a 22 teraflops graphics card with 4,352 CUDA cores with a total graphics power of 160/165 W (8/16GB) and an average gaming power of 140 W. The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a total graphics power of 200 W and an average gaming power of 197 W. For its part, the GeForce RTX 4060 adds 15 teraflops and 3,072 CUDA cores, while its total graphics power is 115 W and the average game stays at 110 W. In the case of the GeForce RTX 3060 both values were 170 W. In energy efficiency there is a notable difference.
After Nvidia, it will be time for AMD to take the step, which should not take long to present the Radeon RX 7600 to compete with the GeForce RTX 4060 range.