wow NVIDIA you know in a way I'm actually
impressed your sheer lack of concern for
any of your mainstream customers it's kind of an achievement like you're in a
race with wizard of the coast to see who can tick off their fan base the fastest
and you're out to prove you'll do anything to win I mean NVIDIA's
practically admitted they'd rather rely on software tricks than give us faster
hardware and the 40 series is not just overpriced it's more like hate priced
and the thing is guys we know that getting outraged is not going to do
anything and you know it's not going to do anything the 4060 TI was panned by
critics and the community alike and still cost $400 somehow but if you want
us to get mad then okay let's get mad because the RTX 4060 is yet another nail
in the world's most overpriced coffin and we're tired of it and we're also
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titanium your brother the 4060 is built on NVIDIA's 8106 GPU and has 8 gigs of
gddr6 memory so what are we losing when we downgrade to a feebler metal well for
starters 29% of our Cuda cores for the the main course 33% fewer rate tracing
intenser course and for dessert a sweet $100 price cut that makes it am I
reading this correctly less expensive than the last gen card it replaces but
it's not all roses those core counts aren't just lower than the 4060 TI
they're lower than the last gen 3060 also lower than last gen is the memory
bus width still at a piddly 128 bits oh
and don't forget they half the number of PCIe lanes which could cause a
bottleneck for those still on PCI gen 3 platforms but look sayth NVIDIA the
clock speeds are up and there was a big bump to L2 cach to make up for the dire
lack of memory bandwidth spoiler alert it doesn't to prove it we put the 4060
and its competition through a brutal series of tests 1,00 total tests that's
right the Labs is in full swing baby we've included a bunch of cards that are
still topping the steam Hardware charts the best of amds bang for the buck
lineup and an Intel Arc a750 for good
measure and as you probably already figured out from the specs this is not a
4K card so let's get these results out of the way quick the 4060 only touched
60 average FPS in F1 and was anywhere from me to barely playable in our other
titles you could have a decent experience in older games or with
settings dialed back to medium or low but if you want to play on high you'll
have to resort to techniques some consider to be
unnatural sticking with Pure rasterization Performance for now though
let's talk 1080p NVIDIA made it very
clear with the 4060 TI that they were not trying to make a card that is
significantly more capable than its predecessor and with the 4060 NVIDIA has
extended their not trying streak in cyberpunk 2077 the 4060 fails to outpace
the 3060 TI which is like the one card
you'd hope that this thing at least ties with right to add insult to injury it
even falls behind the now 30 to $50 cheaper RX 7600 from team red then we
see the same story in f122 where the 460 sits just 10% ahead of its last gen
direct counterpart the 3060 the real star of the show then again is the last
gen 6700 XT which cranks out 42% more
frames than the 4060 and at the time of writing can be purchased for just $10
more in The Last of Us Part One the 4060
at least beats its direct team red competitor RX 6700 but but again fails
to overcome the 360 GTI and the more tests we ran the more true our
observations became this thing is so bad that if I didn't know any better I'd say
NVIDIA didn't even bother to Benchmark to price this thing accordingly to peek
at Vulcan performance we included Red Dead Redemption 2 where the story mostly
stays the same but the ark a750 shows up with some impressive performance then in
Forza the 4060 finally eats its way ahead of the 36 DTI yay I guess and
returnal just confirms what we already know again overall the 4060 offers very little in
performance over its direct team red competitor and it does so at a 20%
premium in price I hope the story changes when we look at 1440p nope we
actually see the gap between the 3060 TI and the 4060 increase in several games
and the gap between team red and NVIDIA gets no wider and just like we saw in
our review of the 4060 TI the 67 XT is
Far and Away the most sensible option for gamers looking for Max Bank for the
buck thanks in no small part to its 12 GB of vram to be clear 8 GB is fine for
most things today but that's unlikely to stay true forever unlike the pricing on
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but wait maybe there's a justification for all of this a master plan I mean
we're 5 years into NVIDIA's Graphics reinvented R Trace future can a cheaper
60 series card give mainstream Gamers a
taste of that technology as it turns out cutting so many RT cores negates any
generational gain over the 3060 TI even
if there is an improvement over the 3060 at least it still beats any of the AMD
cards in its price bracket but the frame rate hit from turning on Ray tracing
even at 1080p just might not be worth the bump and visual Fidelity for many
gamers of course NVIDIA does also have
dlss and frame Jen
and we do have to give credit where it's due here when set to the Quality preset
in most games dlss NVIDIA's AI upscaling
technique is near indistinguishable from standard rendering if you know where to
look you can find Visual anomalies but it's gotten good enough over the last
few years that you pretty much need to be looking for them and the performance
gains are very substantial this is where NVIDIA wants to steer the discussion and
for good reason using d s s at 1440p we
are seeing excellent gains in performance with the 4060 finally
convincingly pulling ahead of last generation thanks to one of dlss latest
tricks frame gen frame gen Smooths animations by creating new frames in
between the natively rendered ones though it should be noted that frame
generation comes with downsides like higher latency and also just not being
magic for example with frame gen 4K gaming is possible on these cards but we
know from our test that if you have less than 30 native FPS it's really not the
best playing experience you can go see our experiments in the video Linked In
the description with that said in older games or at lower settings I could see
Gamers using NVIDIA's machine learning AI Tom Foolery to run this thing at 4K
the problem is it's limited to like a couple dozen games so moving on to
productivity a traditional strong point for NVIDIA blender sees the 4060 look
fairly capable for a mainstream card and the same goes for spec view perf where
it's clear that the 128bit memory bus is a real problem though it's worth noting
this Benchmark is getting a little long in the tooth we are also working on
getting some results from Da Vinci resolve but at the time of review driver
issues stood in our way speaking of issues what about the issue of expensive
power whether gaming or running full Bor applications like the rest of the 40
series The 4060 sips power f-122 brings
it all the way up to its rated power but that's Just5 Watts a significant drop
from its Thai clad brother and even less than AMD's 7600
in fact it's less than a 3050 if the price of power is a concern where you
live then the 4060 actually could offer a decent value this is probably where
the card shines its brightest and thanks to sipping power The Thermals on these
ASUS dual cards we got for testing are also great with temps never exceeding
73° on the Hotpot which was kind of a lot of words to say NVIDIA doesn't care
about you when they can't book enough Fab capacity to serve the far more
lucrative AI customers that rocketed their valuation Beyond a trillion
dollars earlier this month but we gave
this wet fart of a GPU a full review treatment anyway in hopes that sometime
in the future it'll come down in price and make sense to buy that's that's just
the best we can do which we know is kind of lame we said we were going to get mad
today but we're just out of gas at this point and I feel like a lot of you must
be in the same boat I mean at a certain point NVIDIA is going to drive their
customers past anger all the way to apathy and if there's one piece of
advice that we can give NVIDIA just don't let that happen no at least if
someone's angry at me I still know they care they're invested in the
relationship they're holding on hoping it's going to get better if they stop
giving a crap that's when I'll know that
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if you guys enjoyed this video why not watch our review of the RX
7600 especially with the recent price drop it's become even more compelling
and there are some cards featured in that review that we couldn't include
here