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I for one think we should be grateful to NVIDIA for the 4060 TI I mean sure we've

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waited over a year for a card that's only 10 faster in rasterized games and

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and were they didn't upgrade the eight gigs of vram from last gen but at least

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they didn't downgrade it like they did with the memory bus and it's it's just a

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hundred dollars more if you want the other eight gigs

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seems totally reasonable when NVIDIA's cost is somewhere between 20 and 35

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dollars at least you won't have to wait months for the drivers to get good okay

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that last one wasn't sarcasm though there is legitimately a fair bit to like

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about the RTX 4060 TI It supports all of

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NVIDIA's latest Ray tracing and AI upscaling bells and whistles it's much

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more power efficient than the card that it replaces and it supports av1 encoding

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which is a huge deal if you stream to YouTube but you also shouldn't pull the

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trigger without getting the full story here there's been a lot of talk lately

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about how eight gigs of vram just isn't enough anymore and I've got some bad

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news it's not FUD at Max settings but only

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1080p resolution The Last of Us remake gobbles up a whopping 8.9 gigs of video

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memory meaning that with an 8 gig card some of that is going to spill out into

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your system memory which significantly harms performance or even worse if you

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have an older system and not even that old just one that doesn't support

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resizable bar there is no overflow you

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simply will need to turn down your graphical settings and this isn't an

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isolated problem we didn't test Jedi Survivor for our suite today but that's

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another recent game that is reportedly using up to 10 gigs of vram at 1080p

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epic settings yikes but Linus you might say I don't need

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epic or ultra settings they don't even look that much better and you're right

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we've even got an entire video about why it's kind of pointless to turn the

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slider all the way to the max but here's the thing even if trying to fully future

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proof is foolish I'm not talking about some hypothetical future need here if

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your card isn't equipped for Ultra today how do you think it's gonna fare in two

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or three years when Ultra is the new medium not good you know it is good

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though our new stick locks joystick covers who needs your sticks getting

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at lttstore.com with that out of the way if we look

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purely at today's performance compared to the rest of NVIDIA's lineup the 46

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DTI looks like a pretty decent buy it

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costs 40 percent less than the RTX 4070 while being only about 20 slower except

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in The Last of Us probably because of that vram issue with that said that

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might be more to do with how bad the 4070 is if we add some inconvenient

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truths to our numbers here the picture gets a little less Rosy AMD has made

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some very aggressive price cuts to their last gen and the 6700 XT performs nearly

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as well sometimes even beating the 4060 TI all while costing about 50 less and

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while including 12 gigabytes of vram without a hundred dollar up charge so if

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all you care about is Pure rasterized Performance per dollar you should

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probably be making the switch to team red that being said there is an efficiency

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story here that we're going to get into later first I want to talk about higher

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resolution gaming because even if NVIDIA isn't talking about it because only Ray

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tracing exists for them now this is a very solid 1440p rasterized gaming card

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most games had one percent lows that were either close to or above 60 FPS at

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ultra settings with Ray tracing and dlss off meaning that on a 60hz monitor you

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can expect a consistently smooth gaming experience want even more frames hey

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just enable dlss or turn down your settings to a more modest preset and

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you're Off to the Races 1440p is just such a great middle ground it offers a

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much Sharper Image compared to 1080p assuming the same screen size but

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without the same Major Performance hit that comes with 4K and it also comes

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some of our results were okay and if you've got a nice 4K TV nearby or a

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secondary 4k monitor depending on the game and settings you could expect

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anywhere as high as 68 FPS average in Forza Horizon 5 with even Ray tracing

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staying playable to as low as 11 FPS in

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cranked out cyberpunk games though who needs them right

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blender loves NVIDIA and if we only look

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at this productivity Benchmark the 4060 TI slots in exactly where you'd expect

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we take a closer look at say DaVinci Resolve with av1 h.264 and h.265 well

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now we're losing to not only several AMD cards but sometimes Intel's Arc a770 and

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this one Hurts the Most even the 3060 TI

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and the worst part is this isn't isolated digging into our spec view perf

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benchmarks the 6700 XT and the 3060 TI

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often come out ahead or basically on par

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with NVIDIA's new hotness but why

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okay while I often say that the specs for a GPU don't matter what matters is

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the performance sometimes the performance makes no sense and we've got

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to dig into the specs to find out why the 4060 TI is based on an 8106 die that

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boosts up to 2.5 gigahertz with 4352 Cuda cores 136 4th gen tensor cores and

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34 3rd gen Ray tracing course all of which sounds sufficiently next gen what

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doesn't is that the eight gigs of vram that we've talked about so much already

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is on a 128-bit bus compared to the 3060

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TI which had double that that is a major

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cost cutting measure that seems to have significantly harmed the 4060 TI in

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memory intensive applications for context guys back in the 600 series days

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you had to go all the way down to the 650 TI which cost 150 dollars to find

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such a budget conscious memory interface but to NVIDIA's credit cheap bastards

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that they are you can't ignore how well it kept up the majority of the time and

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according to NVIDIA this is largely thanks to the 4060 TI's massively

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upgraded cash they claim and our numbers

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do bear this out that it improves performance reduces latency and

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increases power efficiency so yeah a

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narrow bus does limit data transfer speeds to vram and in a perfect world we

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wouldn't have to give that up but the more we can store in the cash instead of

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vram the better now I'm not a GPU architect so I can't say this for

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certain but it seems like this trade-off might be contributing to better

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performance in hybrid applications like gaming while also taking advantage of

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the 4060 TI's Ray tracing course and its AI engine I mean looking at performance

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in games with Ray tracing it's clear that this isn't some feature that's

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tacked on now it's actually usable and unless you have six hundred dollars to

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blow on a 4070 this is the best next-gen

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gaming experience on the Block and the same goes for when we turn on dlss AI

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upscaling which in general turns playable into smooth and smooth into

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smooth leader you isn't perfect there

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are still some visual anomalies from time to time and we did find outliers

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where performance did not improve for example using dlss3 and returnal

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resulted in a degraded experience whether we had frame generation enabled

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or not so super bizarre but it has

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improved to the point where some games not only look the same and perform

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better but will even look better with dlss it's definitely a nice to have

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and what makes it even better is that the 4060 TI draws significantly less

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power than its predecessor sometimes staying within 140 Watts depending on

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the gamer workload that is really impressive and could even be the

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difference between needing to upgrade your power supply or not needing to

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upgrade your power supply this part's anecdotal we're still waiting on our

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Sound Chamber but in terms of Acoustics while gaming it's no louder than really

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any other card which is good I guess considering that it only reaches 66

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degrees on average during our f-122 loop with a Max temp of 79 on The Hot Spot

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we're going to have way more concrete testing on GPU noise and thermals down

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the line so make sure you stay tuned for more Labs updates

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so then at four hundred dollars is it a

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good product at a good price let me put it this way when NVIDIA CEO

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Jensen told all of his Pascal gamer friends that it's safe to upgrade now it

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wasn't 3060s and 3060 TI's might as well

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have been made of unobtainium but now honestly yeah I agree the only question

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is whether it's safe to upgrade to NVIDIA the 40 series is already a mixed

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bag and now the 4060 family looks like it's going to be similarly all over the

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map at 300 the non-ti version could make

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sense but then if these specs are anything to go by you're going to be

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leaving a lot of performance on the table then at 400 we've got good

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performance but do you really want to hamstring yourself with only eight gigs

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of RAM and then 500 I mean gee that's an

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awful lot of money to spend on an entry-class Cheapo 128 bit GPU that's

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masquerading as a performance to your card it seems like NVIDIA has just

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completely decoupled their manufacturing costs from their retail price here look

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no further and the 100 up charge for 20

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bucks of memory so if I was a cynic

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and I am I would say that the pricing structure here is just a way of

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manufacturing fomo so that you'll upsell yourself to spend more than maybe you

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should thankfully though we do still have some competition in the space

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power consumption Ray tracing and dlss aren't major concerns for you the 6700

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