Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture has become one of the most unpopular series of video cards ever. The middle-class cards in the 60 series have been slaughtered by critics – including us – and now we have a new card on our test bench.
It is not very surprising that the grade is low.
We were not sent the RTX 4060 Ti at launch, but have obtained a card from a third-party manufacturer. Nvidia’s press contact has stopped answering us after the last articles I have prepared.
The Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti comes in two different versions, either with 8 GB or 16 GB of video memory. None of them have been well received due to the price level, but that perhaps especially applies to the edition I am testing; the one with 8 GB.
The MSI RTX 4060 Ti Gaming X Trio currently costs around NOK 6,000 in Norwegian online stores.
Habil keels
The RTX 4060 Ti has 4352 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory. The version I am testing comes with an eight-pin power connector, and should draw up to 160 watts from the wall.
I have tested MSI’s cooler many times before. Even under full load, where it uses 160 watts, it delivers low temperatures with little noise.
STYLISH: MSI is good at design. The cooler performs well.
Mikkjell Lønning/Gamer.no
At most I saw temperatures of 67 degrees. The video card clocks up to 2850 MHz out of the box, which is more than 200 MHz above what MSI advertises.
But the third-party manufacturers are not the problem with the Lovelace generation either.
Disappointing
It is the performance that is the big minus of both RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti. They simply do not live up to the price.
Usually, one expects that new generations perform slightly better than the class above from the previous generation – i.e. that the RTX 4060 Ti should be better than the RTX 3070 Ti – at a lower price, but that is not the case here.
Mikkjell Lønning/Gamer.no
The 4060 Ti even struggles against the RTX 3070. We have not tested the RTX 3070 on our new test bench, but see that it agrees with previous test numbers we have, together with the results from other critics.
We have run the RTX 4060 Ti through 15 different games in 1080p, 1440p and 4K. The RTX 4060 Ti delivers a high average frame rate when we have a number of older games, and it is a marginally better purchase than the RTX 4060, but with these results it is just as well to buy a used card from the previous generation.
Our tests here, which you can see in detail on the next page, show that the RTX 3070 Ti is clearly more powerful. It is still possible to buy the RTX 3070 Ti new online, and the cheap versions are only a few hundreds of dollars more expensive than this.
The results also show that 8 GB of video memory is too small for 4K gaming in some of our games. For example, I experienced a drop down to 5 frames per second in Far Cry 6, but the test window itself remained at a somewhat normal level.
Too weak for ray tracing
The difference up to the RTX 3070 Ti is somewhat smaller in games I have tested with ray tracing.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t help much. This is not a graphics card you should turn on ray tracing with in new games, as the frame rate fell below 60 far too quickly.
In sum, there is not much to cheer about when it comes to performance here. It’s perfectly fine, but no more than that.
The only reason to buy the RTX 4060 Ti is access to Frame Generation and the latest generation DLSS. And that is not a good enough argument.
Conclusion
Mikkjell Lønning/Gamer.no
The Ada Lovelace architecture has been an ever-so-small roller coaster. The RTX 4090 was also terribly expensive, but without competition in terms of performance, you can set the price as you like. Therefore, the video card was a critical success.
It is worse in the middle class.
The RTX 4060 Ti is slightly better than the RTX 4060, but it is unfortunately of little consolation when older video cards from both Nvidia and AMD can provide more performance for the money.
Although you can play most things in 1080p and 1440p without problem with the RTX 4060 Ti, there is no reason to buy this compared to, for example, the predecessor RTX 3070 Ti.
We have seen used copies of the RTX 3080 Ti go for around NOK 5,000 on Finn.no recently, and then you get 50 percent higher performance in 1080p/1440p and almost twice as high a frame rate in 4K. Instead, aim for something like this.
2023-08-13 06:04:33
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