I for one think we should be grateful to NVIDIA for the 4060 TI I mean sure we've
waited over a year for a card that's only 10 faster in rasterized games and
and were they didn't upgrade the eight gigs of vram from last gen but at least
they didn't downgrade it like they did with the memory bus and it's it's just a
hundred dollars more if you want the other eight gigs
seems totally reasonable when NVIDIA's cost is somewhere between 20 and 35
dollars at least you won't have to wait months for the drivers to get good okay
that last one wasn't sarcasm though there is legitimately a fair bit to like
about the RTX 4060 TI It supports all of
NVIDIA's latest Ray tracing and AI upscaling bells and whistles it's much
more power efficient than the card that it replaces and it supports av1 encoding
which is a huge deal if you stream to YouTube but you also shouldn't pull the
trigger without getting the full story here there's been a lot of talk lately
about how eight gigs of vram just isn't enough anymore and I've got some bad
news it's not FUD at Max settings but only
1080p resolution The Last of Us remake gobbles up a whopping 8.9 gigs of video
memory meaning that with an 8 gig card some of that is going to spill out into
your system memory which significantly harms performance or even worse if you
have an older system and not even that old just one that doesn't support
resizable bar there is no overflow you
simply will need to turn down your graphical settings and this isn't an
isolated problem we didn't test Jedi Survivor for our suite today but that's
another recent game that is reportedly using up to 10 gigs of vram at 1080p
epic settings yikes but Linus you might say I don't need
epic or ultra settings they don't even look that much better and you're right
we've even got an entire video about why it's kind of pointless to turn the
slider all the way to the max but here's the thing even if trying to fully future
proof is foolish I'm not talking about some hypothetical future need here if
your card isn't equipped for Ultra today how do you think it's gonna fare in two
or three years when Ultra is the new medium not good you know it is good
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purely at today's performance compared to the rest of NVIDIA's lineup the 46
DTI looks like a pretty decent buy it
costs 40 percent less than the RTX 4070 while being only about 20 slower except
in The Last of Us probably because of that vram issue with that said that
might be more to do with how bad the 4070 is if we add some inconvenient
truths to our numbers here the picture gets a little less Rosy AMD has made
some very aggressive price cuts to their last gen and the 6700 XT performs nearly
as well sometimes even beating the 4060 TI all while costing about 50 less and
while including 12 gigabytes of vram without a hundred dollar up charge so if
all you care about is Pure rasterized Performance per dollar you should
probably be making the switch to team red that being said there is an efficiency
story here that we're going to get into later first I want to talk about higher
resolution gaming because even if NVIDIA isn't talking about it because only Ray
tracing exists for them now this is a very solid 1440p rasterized gaming card
most games had one percent lows that were either close to or above 60 FPS at
ultra settings with Ray tracing and dlss off meaning that on a 60hz monitor you
can expect a consistently smooth gaming experience want even more frames hey
just enable dlss or turn down your settings to a more modest preset and
you're Off to the Races 1440p is just such a great middle ground it offers a
much Sharper Image compared to 1080p assuming the same screen size but
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some of our results were okay and if you've got a nice 4K TV nearby or a
secondary 4k monitor depending on the game and settings you could expect
anywhere as high as 68 FPS average in Forza Horizon 5 with even Ray tracing
staying playable to as low as 11 FPS in
cranked out cyberpunk games though who needs them right
blender loves NVIDIA and if we only look
at this productivity Benchmark the 4060 TI slots in exactly where you'd expect
we take a closer look at say DaVinci Resolve with av1 h.264 and h.265 well
now we're losing to not only several AMD cards but sometimes Intel's Arc a770 and
this one Hurts the Most even the 3060 TI
and the worst part is this isn't isolated digging into our spec view perf
benchmarks the 6700 XT and the 3060 TI
often come out ahead or basically on par
with NVIDIA's new hotness but why
okay while I often say that the specs for a GPU don't matter what matters is
the performance sometimes the performance makes no sense and we've got
to dig into the specs to find out why the 4060 TI is based on an 8106 die that
boosts up to 2.5 gigahertz with 4352 Cuda cores 136 4th gen tensor cores and
34 3rd gen Ray tracing course all of which sounds sufficiently next gen what
doesn't is that the eight gigs of vram that we've talked about so much already
is on a 128-bit bus compared to the 3060
TI which had double that that is a major
cost cutting measure that seems to have significantly harmed the 4060 TI in
memory intensive applications for context guys back in the 600 series days
you had to go all the way down to the 650 TI which cost 150 dollars to find
such a budget conscious memory interface but to NVIDIA's credit cheap bastards
that they are you can't ignore how well it kept up the majority of the time and
according to NVIDIA this is largely thanks to the 4060 TI's massively
upgraded cash they claim and our numbers
do bear this out that it improves performance reduces latency and
increases power efficiency so yeah a
narrow bus does limit data transfer speeds to vram and in a perfect world we
wouldn't have to give that up but the more we can store in the cash instead of
vram the better now I'm not a GPU architect so I can't say this for
certain but it seems like this trade-off might be contributing to better
performance in hybrid applications like gaming while also taking advantage of
the 4060 TI's Ray tracing course and its AI engine I mean looking at performance
in games with Ray tracing it's clear that this isn't some feature that's
tacked on now it's actually usable and unless you have six hundred dollars to
blow on a 4070 this is the best next-gen
gaming experience on the Block and the same goes for when we turn on dlss AI
upscaling which in general turns playable into smooth and smooth into
smooth leader you isn't perfect there
are still some visual anomalies from time to time and we did find outliers
where performance did not improve for example using dlss3 and returnal
resulted in a degraded experience whether we had frame generation enabled
or not so super bizarre but it has
improved to the point where some games not only look the same and perform
better but will even look better with dlss it's definitely a nice to have
and what makes it even better is that the 4060 TI draws significantly less
power than its predecessor sometimes staying within 140 Watts depending on
the gamer workload that is really impressive and could even be the
difference between needing to upgrade your power supply or not needing to
upgrade your power supply this part's anecdotal we're still waiting on our
Sound Chamber but in terms of Acoustics while gaming it's no louder than really
any other card which is good I guess considering that it only reaches 66
degrees on average during our f-122 loop with a Max temp of 79 on The Hot Spot
we're going to have way more concrete testing on GPU noise and thermals down
the line so make sure you stay tuned for more Labs updates
so then at four hundred dollars is it a
good product at a good price let me put it this way when NVIDIA CEO
Jensen told all of his Pascal gamer friends that it's safe to upgrade now it
wasn't 3060s and 3060 TI's might as well
have been made of unobtainium but now honestly yeah I agree the only question
is whether it's safe to upgrade to NVIDIA the 40 series is already a mixed
bag and now the 4060 family looks like it's going to be similarly all over the
map at 300 the non-ti version could make
sense but then if these specs are anything to go by you're going to be
leaving a lot of performance on the table then at 400 we've got good
performance but do you really want to hamstring yourself with only eight gigs
of RAM and then 500 I mean gee that's an
awful lot of money to spend on an entry-class Cheapo 128 bit GPU that's
masquerading as a performance to your card it seems like NVIDIA has just
completely decoupled their manufacturing costs from their retail price here look
no further and the 100 up charge for 20
bucks of memory so if I was a cynic
and I am I would say that the pricing structure here is just a way of
manufacturing fomo so that you'll upsell yourself to spend more than maybe you
should thankfully though we do still have some competition in the space
power consumption Ray tracing and dlss aren't major concerns for you the 6700
XT from AMD is a compelling option with
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