NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU Benchmarks Leak: Up To 20% Faster Than RTX 3060 But Slower Than 3060 Ti

By: Hassan Mujtaba
Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-benchmarks-leak-20-percent-faster-than-rtx-3060-slower-than-3060-ti/

The first benchmarks of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card have leaked out within the Geekbench 5 database.

Leaked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU Benchmarks Show A 20% Boost Over The RTX 3060

The benchmarks we are looking at were leaked within the Geekbench 5 database and cover the OpenCL and Vulkan performance. These benchmark results show us what the NVIDIA entry-level chips such as the AD107 GPU will have to offer to gamers in terms of gen-over-gen performance increases.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is designed to replace the GeForce RTX 3060 but essentially targets gamers who have been running much older cards such as the RTX 2060 and GTX 1060 series. This card should offer much better performance than those, especially in ray tracing titles due to Ada’s updated architectural design along with support for a range of new features such as DLSS 3, AV1 & also the fact that the card runs much more efficiently, and comes in at a price that is cheaper than its predecessor.

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In terms of performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Non-Ti GPU scored 99,419 points within the Vulkan API test and 105,630 points within the OpenCL API test. Compared to the RTX 3060, the RTX 4060 scores a 20% & 17% lead over its predecessor, respectively. Meanwhile, the RTX 3060 Ti ends up around 3-5% faster in the same benchmarks. Compared to its closest current-gen competitor from AMD, the RX 7600, the GPU offers up to a 32% improvement in performance but also ends up 20% slower than the RTX 4060 Ti. Following is the performance of the cards visualized in charts:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 VULKAN  (Geekbench 5) Benchmark
Score

0
20150
40300
60450
80600
100750
120900

0
20150
40300
60450
80600
100750
120900

RTX 4060 Ti

120.9k

RTX 3060 Ti

104.8k

RX 6700 XT

104.1k

RTX 4060

99.4k

RX 7600

95.4k

RTX 3060

85k

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 OpenCL (Geekbench 5) Benchmark
Score

0
22015
44030
66045
88060
110075
132090

0
22015
44030
66045
88060
110075
132090

RTX 4060 Ti

132.1k

RTX 3060 Ti

108.3k

RTX 4060

105.6k

RX 6700 XT

96.4k

RTX 3060

88.3k

RX 7600

80.2k

Now the thing about these benchmarks is that they aren’t indicative of actual gaming performance since they are based on synthetic tests. The Radeon RX 6700 XT for example is a highly competitive GPU against the RTX 4060 Ti in gaming which isn’t showcased here but the performance difference between the RTX 4060 and RTX 3060 can reflect what we can expect to see in gaming results. A 20% boost in performance at a lower price does sound good but that’s only if the 3060 Ti doesn’t end up being priced close to $300 US which seems to be the case as seen in recent price cuts. The 3060 Ti can eat up sales of the RTX 4060 since it performs the same and offers a wider memory bus which is said to be a serious downgrade by the developers of the Yuzu emulator.

Overall, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is meant to launch later this month on the 29th of June for a price of $299 US. Expect our performance review to cover the graphics card within a range of titles.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specs:

Graphics Card Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GPU Name Ada Lovelace AD102-300 Ada Lovelace AD103-300 Ada Lovelace AD104-400 Ada Lovelace AD104-250 Ada Lovelace AD106-350 Ada Lovelace AD107-400
Process Node TSMC 4N TSMC 4N TSMC 4N TSMC 4N TSMC 4N TSMC 4N
Die Size 608mm2 378.6mm2 294.5mm2 294.5mm2 190.0mm2 146.0mm2
Transistors 76 Billion 45.9 Billion 35.8 Billion 35.8 Billion 22.9 Billion TBD
CUDA Cores 16384 9728 7680 5888 4352 3072
TMUs / ROPs 512 / 176 320 / 112 240 / 80 184 / 64 136 / 48 TBD
Tensor / RT Cores 512 / 128 304 / 76 240 / 60 184 / 46 136 / 34 TBD
L2 Cache 72 MB 64 MB 48 MB 36 MB 32 MB 24 MB
Base Clock 2230 MHz 2210 MHz 2310 MHz 1920 MHz 2310 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2510 MHz 2610 MHz 2475 MHz 2535 MHz 2460 MHz
FP32 Compute 83 TFLOPs 49 TFLOPs 40 TFLOPs 29 TFLOPs 22 TFLOPs 15 TFLOPs
RT TFLOPs 191 TFLOPs 113 TFLOPs 82 TFLOPs 67 TFLOPs 51 TFLOPs 35 TFLOPs
Tensor-TOPs 1321 TOPs 780 TOPs 641 TOPs 466 TOPs 353 TOPs 242 TOPs
Memory Capacity 24 GB GDDR6X 16 GB GDDR6X 12 GB GDDR6X 12 GB GDDR6X 8-16 GB GDDR6 8 GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 384-bit 256-bit 192-bit 192-bit 128-bit 128-bit
Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps 23.0 Gbps 21.0 Gbps 21.0 Gbps 18.0 Gbps 17.0 Gbps
Bandwidth 1008 GB/s 736 GB/s 504 GB/s 504 GB/s 288 GB/s
(554 GB/s Effective)
272 GB/s
(453 GB/s Effective)
TBP 450W 320W 285W 200W 160-165W 115W
Price (MSRP / FE) $1599 US / 1949 EU $1199 US / 1469 EU $799 US $599 US $399-$499 US $299 US
Price (Current) $1599 US / 1859 EU $1199 US / 1399 EU $799 US $599 US $399-$499 US $299 US
Launch (Availability) 12th October 2022 16th November 2022 5th January 2023 13th April 2023 24th May / July 2023 29th June 2023

Written by Hassan Mujtaba