NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Edition & Custom Model Review Ft. MSI, GALAX & PNY
By: Hassan Mujtaba
Source: https://wccftech.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-founders-edition-custom-model-review-ft-msi-galax-pny/
Time flies by quickly, it’s already been six months since we tested the first Ada Lovelace graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4090, and now, NVIDIA has launched the fifth entry in its ever-expanding desktop lineup, the RTX 4060 Ti.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is the first Ada graphics card to hit retail under the $500 US price tag. With a starting price of just $399 US, the graphics card is going to be a popular seller within the mainstream market segment.
While we will be talking about the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in this review, we will also be taking a look at how it offers faster shader performance, faster ray tracing performance, & faster AI compute performance. Built on a brand new process node and featuring an architecture designed from the ground up, Ada is a killer product with lots of numbers to talk about.
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Today, we will be taking a look at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card. We will be looking at both Founders Edition and custom models.
NVIDIA GeForce GPU Segment/Tier Prices
| Graphics Segment | 2014-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titan Tier | Titan X (Maxwell) | Titan X (Pascal) | Titan Xp (Pascal) | Titan V (Volta) | Titan RTX (Turing) | GeForce RTX 3090 | GeForce RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 |
GeForce RTX 4090 |
| Price | $999 US | $1199 US | $1199 US | $2999 US | $2499 US | $1499 US | $1999 US $1499 US |
$1599 US |
| Ultra Enthusiast Tier | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | GeForce GTX 980 Ti | GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | GeForce RTX 2080 Ti | GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | GeForce RTX 4080 |
| Price | $649 US | $649 US | $699 US | $999 US | $999 US | $1199 US | $1199 US | $1199 US |
| Enthusiast Tier | GeForce GTX 980 | GeForce GTX 1080 | GeForce GTX 1080 | GeForce RTX 2080 | GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB | GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB | GeForce RTX 4070 Ti |
| Price | $549 US | $549 US | $549 US | $699 US | $699 US | $699 US | $799 US | $799 US |
| High-End Tier | GeForce GTX 970 | GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce RTX 2070 | GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 |
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 |
GeForce RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB |
| Price | $329 US | $379 US | $379 US | $499 US | $499 US | $599 $499 |
$599 $499 |
$599 US $499 US |
| Mainstream Tier | GeForce GTX 960 | GeForce GTX 1060 | GeForce GTX 1060 | GeForce GTX 1060 | GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GeForce RTX 2060 GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER GeForce GTX 1660 |
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB |
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB |
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 |
| Price | $199 US | $249 US | $249 US | $249 US | $399 US $349 US $279 US $229 US $219 US |
$399 US $329 US |
$399 US $329 US |
$399 US $299 US |
| Entry Tier | GTX 750 Ti GTX 750 |
GTX 950 | GTX 1050 Ti GTX 1050 |
GTX 1050 Ti GTX 1050 |
GTX 1650 SUPER GTX 1650 |
GTX 1650 SUPER GTX 1650 |
RTX 3050 | N/A |
| Price | $149 US $119 US |
$149 US | $139 US $109 US |
$139 US $109 US |
$159 US $149 US |
$159 US $149 US |
$249 US | N/A |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Gaming Graphics Cards
Turing wasn’t just any graphics core, it was the graphics core that was to become the foundation of future GPUs. The future is realized now with next-generation consoles going deep in talks about ray tracing and AI-assisted super-sampling techniques. NVIDIA had a head start with Turing & Ampere and its Ada generation will only do things infinitely times better.
The Ada GPU does many traditional things which we would expect from a GPU, but at the same time, also breaks the barrier when it comes to untraditional GPU operations. Just to sum up some features:
- New Streaming Multiprocessor (SM)
- New Turing Tensor Cores
- New Real-Time Ray Tracing Acceleration
- New Shading Enhancements
- New Deep Learning Features For Graphics & Inference
- New GDDR6X High-Performance Memory Subsystem
- New HDMI 2.1 Display Engine & Next-Gen NVENC/NVDEC
The technologies mentioned above are some of the main building blocks of the Ada GPU, but there’s more within the graphics core itself which we will talk about in detail so let’s get started.