Today, Nvidia is introducing the cheapest model with the new Ada Lovelace architecture – the GeForce RTX 4060. It will mainly please individuals who do not like to spend too much both on the hardware itself and on its operation. It offers high performance for 1080p resolution with low consumption, and the price of the card itself starts at less than eight thousand crowns.
Conclusion
From the perspective of someone interested in cheap 1080p graphics, the RTX 4060 seems more interesting to me than the RTX 4060 Ti. Both cards are sufficient for 1080p at 60-120 Hz, both offer DLSS 3, both offer 8 GB of memory on the 128b bus, only the RTX 4060 has slightly higher frame rates. The RTX 4060 Ti is probably only a reasonable choice if you want a GeForce, don’t have a few thousand extra to buy the 12GB RTX 4070 or the 16GB variant of the RTX 4060 Ti, but want the highest possible gaming performance.
Similar to other models, the RTX 4060 will probably have a slightly more lukewarm start. It competes with older models at significant discounts. The biggest problem is for the Radeon RX 6650 XT, as for other cards with a price tag under eight thousand, which you can get from us starting at around 5,500 crowns. At the same time, it loses units rather than tens of percent of performance on the RTX 4060. At the same time, however, it is the card that ages the fastest in terms of moral life – even compared to the RX 7600, it has slower ray tracing, it quite logically lacks DLSS 2.xi DLSS 3, does not support AV1, and has a significantly higher consumption than the RTX 4060. But above all that they turn a blind eye when the cheapest models have a price difference of over two thousand.
The closest competitor from its own stable is currently the RTX 3060 Ti, which offers higher performance and only a slightly higher price. Morally, however, it will also age earlier than the RTX 4060 – with more emphasis on ray tracing in upcoming games, the difference will decrease, and it can be expected that most demanding AAA titles will already have DLSS 3 support, so its absence in the RTX 3060 Ti is to blame hurt for years. It depends on whether you prefer higher performance in current and older games, then the RTX 3060 Ti will be a better choice, if you play more recent games, then the RTX 4060. How many hours per week you spend gaming can also play a role. If you go over the top ten, the RTX 3060 Ti can cost you significantly more in terms of consumption over time – if you don’t throttle its performance with classic v-sync or a limit of 60 frames per second in 1080p, it is about 90 W more voracious than the RTX 4060.
A similarly priced alternative from the competition is the RX 6700 XT, which I have not measured yet. The Pulse from Sapphire can be purchased for about five hundred more than the RTX 3060 Ti, and it has an advantage over it in 12 GB of memory and other extra units. However, consumption, performance in ray tracing and the absence of DLSS again play against it.
Against the 12GB RTX 3060, the biggest handicap is, as you can guess, 8GB of memory. But for cheap 1080p gaming even in the coming years, this will mean nothing more than having to reduce the details in one out of five ten games so that the memory is enough, which is nothing you wouldn’t expect from lower-end cards. The same goes against the RTX 3060 as with the RTX 3060 Ti – it is likely that the lack of DLSS 3 support will bother you with more games than the smaller memory capacity of the RTX 4060.
The question is how long the cheapest models from the above-mentioned competitors will remain on sale. It is possible that in a few weeks you will no longer have to deal with such a dilemma.
Against the RX 7600 for seven thousand more reasonable choice
As for the comparison with the new and direct competitor in the form of the Radeon RX 7600 – the difference in the cheapest models is currently around nine hundred crowns. Part of the difference in price fades away after a few years of playing, just paying for electricity – the difference is around 50 W if you don’t throttle the cards too much. For ten hours of playing, at our current favorable electricity prices, it will cost around four to five crowns. Of course, it is difficult to predict where energy prices will go in the coming years. However, RX 7600 prices are apparently still higher than they should be, precisely because of the RX 6600 from the last generation being sold. It can be assumed that once the most affordable models from the last generation disappear, the price of the RX 7600 will go down and the difference will increase. And it is not excluded that the prices of the RX 7600 will go down, because next to the RTX 4060 it no longer appears as advantageous as against older models. For those extra few hundred, you get the usual package of Nvidia’s proprietary technologies, which is not to be thrown away, and the lower consumption of the card may, over time, erase the difference in price. At the current prices, I would lean towards GeForce when deciding between RX 7600 and RTX 4060, but it is still true that when deciding between RX 7600 and RX 6650 XT, I would definitely prefer a few percent of performance, save over two thousand and buy RX 6650 XT.
Similar to the higher RTX 40 models, the card has a slightly higher consumption without load at 4K resolution when the computer is completely idle. The difference is about 10 W extra at times when nothing is happening on the computer and the image is not being redrawn. That is why the power consumption of the assembly is 89 W in the graph comparing the consumption. But it is enough to start some application that regularly annoys the system (gpu-z with monitoring every second, task manager, afterburner, move the mouse, just anything) and the power of the card drops by 10 W .This does not occur at lower resolutions. And Nvidia is still working out what the problem is.
It is also strange that from the measured power consumption of the PC under load, it seems that the consumption is slightly higher than it should be according to the specifications and monitoring data. From the power consumption measurement of the entire assembly, it seems that the real consumption is 10-20 W higher than the 115 W declared by Nvidia for the reference solution. But we’ll see how other models turn out and, if necessary, I’ll try to measure the consumption of the card itself. But it probably won’t be an isolated problem.
MSI RTX 4060 Ventus 2X Black OC, 8 GB
As for MSI’s Ventus design, I’m a little disappointed that the card isn’t quieter at low power. It is not downright noisy like some Ventus or Mech models from previous generations, for example compared to the previously tested 12GB RTX 3060 Ventus z it is at least two classes quieter and in terms of noise it can be described as average, but it could have been noticeably quieter. Paradoxically, it’s more of a software thing than a hardware thing – when I lowered the fan speed by 300 rpm, the noise dropped to a level where the card can no longer be heard over the system fans in most builds, and the average GPU temperature only rose from 70 to 72 degrees C. The positive thing is that the coils cannot be heard at a normal distance under load, but with a 115W card it would be very bad if they were heard.
To sum it up, there’s nothing really wrong with the card. It offers decent performance at 1080p, it’s not expensive, it doesn’t disappoint in terms of operational characteristics, although it could have been better, and I usually don’t even expect the option to increase the power limit from the basic model. But I have no doubt that it will be possible to buy other models for similar money that will already have quieter cooling. That’s why I’ll wait for the tests of other cards with the evaluation.
MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X Black, 8G OCPROSCONSHigh performance for gaming at a resolution of 1920 × 1080 points Notably worse price/performance ratio than the slightly slower RX 6650 XT after discounts No load passive cooling, silent coils Price/performance ratio worse than competing Radeons and 12GB RTX 3060 Support DLSS 2.x, DLSS 3, AV18 GB of memory Classic eight-pin, does not require reduction The cooler is only moderately noisy Low consumption The power limit cannot be increasedApproximate price with VAT: 7899 CZK
2023-06-28 15:08:25
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