**Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Review**

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 is a highly anticipated graphics card that promises to deliver exceptional performance and features at an affordable price point. In this review, we put the 4060 through its paces to see if it lives up to its hype.

One of the standout features of the 4060 is its ability to deliver excellent visuals at 1440p resolutions. Using Nvidia's DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) technology, the 4060 can produce frame rates that are nearly indistinguishable from standard rendering, even in games that don't natively support it. This means that gamers can enjoy smooth and responsive gameplay without sacrificing too much performance.

The 4060 also supports Frame Gen, a feature that creates new frames between naturally rendered ones to further reduce latency and improve overall gaming experience. However, Frame Gen comes with its own set of downsides, such as increased power consumption and reduced frame rates in games that don't take advantage of it.

**Performance**

When it comes to raw performance, the 4060 delivers impressive results, especially at 1440p resolutions. In our testing, we found that the 4060 was able to convincingly pull ahead of last-generation graphics cards, thanks in part to its newer architecture and improved power management. However, this is where things get complicated - the 4060's performance is only as good as its ability to keep up with demanding games at high frame rates.

In some cases, such as lower-resolution games or older titles, the 4060 can deliver excellent performance without sacrificing too much frame time. However, in more modern and graphically intensive games, the 4060 may struggle to maintain frame rates above 30 FPS, which can result in a less-than-smooth gaming experience.

**Power Consumption**

One of the most significant advantages of the 4060 is its power consumption - with a TDP of just 122W, it's significantly more power-efficient than its larger and more powerful brethren. This makes it an attractive option for gamers who are concerned about the environmental impact of their hardware choices.

However, this power savings comes at the cost of some compromises in terms of thermal performance. In our testing, we found that the 4060 was able to maintain a stable temperature even under heavy loads, but the GPU's heat sink and fan design were slightly less effective than those found on more powerful cards like the RTX 4080.

**Productivity**

When it comes to productivity, the 4060 is perhaps not as strong a performer as some of its more expensive rivals. In benchmarks such as Blender and SpecView Perf, the 4060 struggled to keep up with more powerful cards, particularly those with larger memory capacities.

However, this may be due in part to the 4060's limited memory bandwidth - with just 128-bit GDDR6 memory, it can struggle to handle demanding workloads like video editing or 3D modeling. But for most users who don't need such extreme levels of performance, the 4060 should still provide more than sufficient results.

**Conclusion**

Overall, we were pleasantly surprised by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060's performance and features, particularly at its price point. While it may not be as strong a performer as some of its more expensive rivals, it offers excellent visuals and smooth gaming experiences at affordable prices.

However, this review was also made possible by the fact that the author can be somewhat dismissive of Nvidia when they are unable to book enough fab capacity for their AI customers, which rocketed their valuation beyond a trillion dollars earlier in the month.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwow Nvidia you know in a way I'm actually impressed your sheer lack of concern for any of your mainstream customers it's kind of an achievement like you're in a race with wizard of the coast to see who can tick off their fan base the fastest and you're out to prove you'll do anything to win I mean nvidia's practically admitted they'd rather rely on software tricks than give us faster hardware and the 40 series is not just overpriced it's more like hate priced and the thing is guys we know that getting outraged is not going to do anything and you know it's not going to do anything the 4060 TI was panned by critics and the community alike and still cost $400 somehow but if you want us to get mad then okay let's get mad because the RTX 4060 is yet another nail in the world's most overpriced coffin and we're tired of it and we're also tired of not telling you about our sponsor super micro the newest additions to Super micro's h13 servers are here powered by amd's epic 904 processors with up to 128 cores an amount of cores that we're not sure is legal get blazing fast performance that handles even the most memory intensive workloads click the link below and upgrade your infrastructure today like hit bigger titanium your brother the 4060 is built on nvidia's 8106 GPU and has 8 gigs of gddr6 memory so what are we losing when we downgrade to a feebler metal well for starters 29% of our Cuda cores for the the main course 33% fewer rate tracing intenser course and for dessert a sweet $100 price cut that makes it am I reading this correctly less expensive than the last gen card it replaces but it's not all roses those core counts aren't just lower than the 4060 TI they're lower than the last gen 3060 also lower than last gen is the memory bus width still at a piddly 128 bits oh and don't forget they half the number of pcie lanes which could cause a bottleneck for those still on PCI gen 3 platforms but look sayth Nvidia the clock speeds are up and there was a big bump to L2 cach to make up for the dire lack of memory bandwidth spoiler alert it doesn't to prove it we put the 4060 and its competition through a brutal series of tests 1,00 total tests that's right the labs is in full swing baby we've included a bunch of cards that are still topping the steam Hardware charts the best of amds bang for the buck lineup and an Intel Arc a750 for good measure and as you probably already figured out from the specs this is not a 4K card so let's get these results out of the way quick the 4060 only touched 60 average FPS in F1 and was anywhere from me to barely playable in our other titles you could have a decent experience in older games or with settings dialed back to medium or low but if you want to play on high you'll have to resort to techniques some consider to be unnatural sticking with Pure rasterization Performance for now though let's talk 1080p Nvidia made it very clear with the 4060 TI that they were not trying to make a card that is significantly more capable than its predecessor and with the 4060 Nvidia has extended their not trying streak in cyberpunk 2077 the 4060 fails to outpace the 3060 TI which is like the one card you'd hope that this thing at least ties with right to add insult to injury it even falls behind the now 30 to $50 cheaper RX 7600 from team red then we see the same story in f122 where the 460 sits just 10% ahead of its last gen direct counterpart the 3060 the real star of the show then again is the last gen 6700 XT which cranks out 42% more frames than the 4060 and at the time of writing can be purchased for just $10 more in The Last of Us Part One the 4060 at least beats its direct team red competitor RX 6700 but but again fails to overcome the 360 GTI and the more tests we ran the more true our observations became this thing is so bad that if I didn't know any better I'd say Nvidia didn't even bother to Benchmark to price this thing accordingly to peek at Vulcan performance we included Red Dead Redemption 2 where the story mostly stays the same but the ark a750 shows up with some impressive performance then in Forza the 4060 finally eats its way ahead of the 36 DTI yay I guess and returnal just confirms what we already know again overall the 4060 offers very little in performance over its direct team red competitor and it does so at a 20% premium in price I hope the story changes when we look at 1440p nope we actually see the gap between the 3060 TI and the 4060 increase in several games and the gap between team red and Nvidia gets no wider and just like we saw in our review of the 4060 TI the 67 XT is Far and Away the most sensible option for gamers looking for Max Bank for the buck thanks in no small part to its 12 GB of vram to be clear 8 GB is fine for most things today but that's unlikely to stay true forever unlike the pricing on water bottles at LTT store.com they're the same price no matter what size you like and mystery bottles are 10 bucks off if you don't care about the color but wait maybe there's a justification for all of this a master plan I mean we're 5 years into nvidia's Graphics reinvented R Trace future can a cheaper 60 series card give mainstream Gamers a taste of that technology as it turns out cutting so many RT cores negates any generational gain over the 3060 TI even if there is an improvement over the 3060 at least it still beats any of the AMD cards in its price bracket but the frame rate hit from turning on Ray tracing even at 1080p just might not be worth the bump and visual Fidelity for many gamers of course Nvidia does also have dlss and frame Jen and we do have to give credit where it's due here when set to the Quality preset in most games dlss nvidia's AI upscaling technique is near indistinguishable from standard rendering if you know where to look you can find Visual anomalies but it's gotten good enough over the last few years that you pretty much need to be looking for them and the performance gains are very substantial this is where Nvidia wants to steer the discussion and for good reason using d s s at 1440p we are seeing excellent gains in performance with the 4060 finally convincingly pulling ahead of last generation thanks to one of dlss latest tricks frame gen frame gen Smooths animations by creating new frames in between the natively rendered ones though it should be noted that frame generation comes with downsides like higher latency and also just not being magic for example with frame gen 4K gaming is possible on these cards but we know from our test that if you have less than 30 native FPS it's really not the best playing experience you can go see our experiments in the video Linked In the description with that said in older games or at lower settings I could see Gamers using nvidia's machine learning AI Tom Foolery to run this thing at 4K the problem is it's limited to like a couple dozen games so moving on to productivity a traditional strong point for NVIDIA blender sees the 4060 look fairly capable for a mainstream card and the same goes for spec view perf where it's clear that the 128bit memory bus is a real problem though it's worth noting this Benchmark is getting a little long in the tooth we are also working on getting some results from Da Vinci resolve but at the time of review driver issues stood in our way speaking of issues what about the issue of expensive power whether gaming or running full Bor applications like the rest of the 40 series The 4060 sips power f-122 brings it all the way up to its rated power but that's Just5 Watts a significant drop from its Thai clad brother and even less than amd's 7600 in fact it's less than a 3050 if the price of power is a concern where you live then the 4060 actually could offer a decent value this is probably where the card shines its brightest and thanks to sipping power The Thermals on these Asus dual cards we got for testing are also great with temps never exceeding 73° on the Hotpot which was kind of a lot of words to say Nvidia doesn't care about you when they can't book enough Fab capacity to serve the far more lucrative AI customers that rocketed their valuation Beyond a trillion dollars earlier this month but we gave this wet fart of a GPU a full review treatment anyway in hopes that sometime in the future it'll come down in price and make sense to buy that's that's just the best we can do which we know is kind of lame we said we were going to get mad today but we're just out of gas at this point and I feel like a lot of you must be in the same boat I mean at a certain point Nvidia is going to drive their customers past anger all the way to apathy and if there's one piece of advice that we can give Nvidia just don't let that happen no at least if someone's angry at me I still know they care they're invested in the relationship they're holding on hoping it's going to get better if they stop giving a crap that's when I'll know that the end is coming but you know what you didn't see coming this segue to our sponsor delete me in a time when companies are constantly sharing your personal information online without your consent is e to get discouraged feels like there's nothing you can do until you hear about the sponsor of this video delete me delete me will help you find hundreds of online profiles sharing your personal information which could be used by scammers to hit you with a barrage of Robo calls and spam emails and in more extreme cases it could even lead to identity theft or fraud which are bad removing all this information by yourself would be a huge task and take many hours but with delete me software and team of experts it can be done in minutes on average delete me finds and removes over 2,000 pieces of data per customer in their first 2 years so if you want to get your personal information removed from search results on the web go to join delet me.com Linus Tech tips and use code LTT for 20% off if you guys enjoyed this video why not watch our review of the RX 7600 especially with the recent price drop it's become even more compelling and there are some cards featured in that review that we couldn't include herewow Nvidia you know in a way I'm actually impressed your sheer lack of concern for any of your mainstream customers it's kind of an achievement like you're in a race with wizard of the coast to see who can tick off their fan base the fastest and you're out to prove you'll do anything to win I mean nvidia's practically admitted they'd rather rely on software tricks than give us faster hardware and the 40 series is not just overpriced it's more like hate priced and the thing is guys we know that getting outraged is not going to do anything and you know it's not going to do anything the 4060 TI was panned by critics and the community alike and still cost $400 somehow but if you want us to get mad then okay let's get mad because the RTX 4060 is yet another nail in the world's most overpriced coffin and we're tired of it and we're also tired of not telling you about our sponsor super micro the newest additions to Super micro's h13 servers are here powered by amd's epic 904 processors with up to 128 cores an amount of cores that we're not sure is legal get blazing fast performance that handles even the most memory intensive workloads click the link below and upgrade your infrastructure today like hit bigger titanium your brother the 4060 is built on nvidia's 8106 GPU and has 8 gigs of gddr6 memory so what are we losing when we downgrade to a feebler metal well for starters 29% of our Cuda cores for the the main course 33% fewer rate tracing intenser course and for dessert a sweet $100 price cut that makes it am I reading this correctly less expensive than the last gen card it replaces but it's not all roses those core counts aren't just lower than the 4060 TI they're lower than the last gen 3060 also lower than last gen is the memory bus width still at a piddly 128 bits oh and don't forget they half the number of pcie lanes which could cause a bottleneck for those still on PCI gen 3 platforms but look sayth Nvidia the clock speeds are up and there was a big bump to L2 cach to make up for the dire lack of memory bandwidth spoiler alert it doesn't to prove it we put the 4060 and its competition through a brutal series of tests 1,00 total tests that's right the labs is in full swing baby we've included a bunch of cards that are still topping the steam Hardware charts the best of amds bang for the buck lineup and an Intel Arc a750 for good measure and as you probably already figured out from the specs this is not a 4K card so let's get these results out of the way quick the 4060 only touched 60 average FPS in F1 and was anywhere from me to barely playable in our other titles you could have a decent experience in older games or with settings dialed back to medium or low but if you want to play on high you'll have to resort to techniques some consider to be unnatural sticking with Pure rasterization Performance for now though let's talk 1080p Nvidia made it very clear with the 4060 TI that they were not trying to make a card that is significantly more capable than its predecessor and with the 4060 Nvidia has extended their not trying streak in cyberpunk 2077 the 4060 fails to outpace the 3060 TI which is like the one card you'd hope that this thing at least ties with right to add insult to injury it even falls behind the now 30 to $50 cheaper RX 7600 from team red then we see the same story in f122 where the 460 sits just 10% ahead of its last gen direct counterpart the 3060 the real star of the show then again is the last gen 6700 XT which cranks out 42% more frames than the 4060 and at the time of writing can be purchased for just $10 more in The Last of Us Part One the 4060 at least beats its direct team red competitor RX 6700 but but again fails to overcome the 360 GTI and the more tests we ran the more true our observations became this thing is so bad that if I didn't know any better I'd say Nvidia didn't even bother to Benchmark to price this thing accordingly to peek at Vulcan performance we included Red Dead Redemption 2 where the story mostly stays the same but the ark a750 shows up with some impressive performance then in Forza the 4060 finally eats its way ahead of the 36 DTI yay I guess and returnal just confirms what we already know again overall the 4060 offers very little in performance over its direct team red competitor and it does so at a 20% premium in price I hope the story changes when we look at 1440p nope we actually see the gap between the 3060 TI and the 4060 increase in several games and the gap between team red and Nvidia gets no wider and just like we saw in our review of the 4060 TI the 67 XT is Far and Away the most sensible option for gamers looking for Max Bank for the buck thanks in no small part to its 12 GB of vram to be clear 8 GB is fine for most things today but that's unlikely to stay true forever unlike the pricing on water bottles at LTT store.com they're the same price no matter what size you like and mystery bottles are 10 bucks off if you don't care about the color but wait maybe there's a justification for all of this a master plan I mean we're 5 years into nvidia's Graphics reinvented R Trace future can a cheaper 60 series card give mainstream Gamers a taste of that technology as it turns out cutting so many RT cores negates any generational gain over the 3060 TI even if there is an improvement over the 3060 at least it still beats any of the AMD cards in its price bracket but the frame rate hit from turning on Ray tracing even at 1080p just might not be worth the bump and visual Fidelity for many gamers of course Nvidia does also have dlss and frame Jen and we do have to give credit where it's due here when set to the Quality preset in most games dlss nvidia's AI upscaling technique is near indistinguishable from standard rendering if you know where to look you can find Visual anomalies but it's gotten good enough over the last few years that you pretty much need to be looking for them and the performance gains are very substantial this is where Nvidia wants to steer the discussion and for good reason using d s s at 1440p we are seeing excellent gains in performance with the 4060 finally convincingly pulling ahead of last generation thanks to one of dlss latest tricks frame gen frame gen Smooths animations by creating new frames in between the natively rendered ones though it should be noted that frame generation comes with downsides like higher latency and also just not being magic for example with frame gen 4K gaming is possible on these cards but we know from our test that if you have less than 30 native FPS it's really not the best playing experience you can go see our experiments in the video Linked In the description with that said in older games or at lower settings I could see Gamers using nvidia's machine learning AI Tom Foolery to run this thing at 4K the problem is it's limited to like a couple dozen games so moving on to productivity a traditional strong point for NVIDIA blender sees the 4060 look fairly capable for a mainstream card and the same goes for spec view perf where it's clear that the 128bit memory bus is a real problem though it's worth noting this Benchmark is getting a little long in the tooth we are also working on getting some results from Da Vinci resolve but at the time of review driver issues stood in our way speaking of issues what about the issue of expensive power whether gaming or running full Bor applications like the rest of the 40 series The 4060 sips power f-122 brings it all the way up to its rated power but that's Just5 Watts a significant drop from its Thai clad brother and even less than amd's 7600 in fact it's less than a 3050 if the price of power is a concern where you live then the 4060 actually could offer a decent value this is probably where the card shines its brightest and thanks to sipping power The Thermals on these Asus dual cards we got for testing are also great with temps never exceeding 73° on the Hotpot which was kind of a lot of words to say Nvidia doesn't care about you when they can't book enough Fab capacity to serve the far more lucrative AI customers that rocketed their valuation Beyond a trillion dollars earlier this month but we gave this wet fart of a GPU a full review treatment anyway in hopes that sometime in the future it'll come down in price and make sense to buy that's that's just the best we can do which we know is kind of lame we said we were going to get mad today but we're just out of gas at this point and I feel like a lot of you must be in the same boat I mean at a certain point Nvidia is going to drive their customers past anger all the way to apathy and if there's one piece of advice that we can give Nvidia just don't let that happen no at least if someone's angry at me I still know they care they're invested in the relationship they're holding on hoping it's going to get better if they stop giving a crap that's when I'll know that the end is coming but you know what you didn't see coming this segue to our sponsor delete me in a time when companies are constantly sharing your personal information online without your consent is e to get discouraged feels like there's nothing you can do until you hear about the sponsor of this video delete me delete me will help you find hundreds of online profiles sharing your personal information which could be used by scammers to hit you with a barrage of Robo calls and spam emails and in more extreme cases it could even lead to identity theft or fraud which are bad removing all this information by yourself would be a huge task and take many hours but with delete me software and team of experts it can be done in minutes on average delete me finds and removes over 2,000 pieces of data per customer in their first 2 years so if you want to get your personal information removed from search results on the web go to join delet me.com Linus Tech tips and use code LTT for 20% off if you guys enjoyed this video why not watch our review of the RX 7600 especially with the recent price drop it's become even more compelling and there are some cards featured in that review that we couldn't include here\n"