The reviewer is discussing their experience with a custom-built NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card that has been "neutered" by the manufacturer, removing one of its legs. The reviewer tests the card in a pre-built system with a Ryzen 3 5300 processor and 16 GB of DDR4 RAM.

The reviewer starts by showing off the unusual assembly process of the graphics card, where the memory modules are not properly secured with thermal pads. They then move on to test the performance of the graphics card in various games.

First, they test the card in a game they didn't specify which is mentioned later and it runs at high frame rates, averaging around 60 frames per second, considering that was running very low settings. The reviewer notes that this is not bad for a graphics card with an asking price of $280, especially compared to the integrated graphics of the Ryzen 3 5300 processor.

Next, they test the card in another game and get around 70-80 frames per second at high frame rates, which feels good to play. However, when testing CS:GO, the reviewer notes that the experience is not ideal due to input lag, but it's still playable if the price of the graphics card is right.

The reviewer then tests Battlefield 5, which runs smoothly with a consistent 70-80 frames per second, indicating that the CPU was on the border of being a bottleneck. The reviewer notes that the game looks good and feels very playable.

Comparing this to a similar graphics card from three years ago (the GTX 1650) for $150 at launch, the RTX 4060 is getting around 40% less performance for $70 more. This makes the reviewer feel like progress has not kept pace with price increases.

In conclusion, the reviewer notes that while the custom-built NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card performs well in various games, its high asking price may make it a bad value for money, especially compared to similar cards from three years ago.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the closest thing to a budget and i say the word budget there trying very hard not to throw up in my mouth but it's the closest thing to a budget graphics card i could find in stock at my local pc shop and it's actually not a gt gt710 or gt 1030 it is a lot more obscure than that this is actually an nvidia quadro t600 card which is in fact a quadro card and that means it's it's not designed for gaming but but we should be able to do a little bit of gaming on it although i'm not expecting fireworks here considering that there was nobody knife battling in the streets outside of the shop to get to it so yeah i think it's gonna be pretty bad uh but before we get into just how bad it is it's time for a word from today's video sponsor that helped me pay for it today's video is sponsored by lenode which is a powerful and easy to use linux based web hosting service that's currently the top rated infrastructure as service provider on g2 very impressive lenode also has an extensive marketplace of fully configured one-click apps for whatever use case you need linux based web servers for be it wordpress development file hosting database management video hosting or even games servers lenode has you covered other than that if you have a heavy computational load lenode is an affordable and easily scalable option lenode is also in the process of implementing google pay which will make your monthly payments more seamless if all of this sounds good to you sign up to lenode using the link in my description below to get a 100 60 day credit initially the title for this video was just gonna be i bought the only graphics card i could find in stock but then i went into the shop to go buy this thing looked at a shelf and there were graphics cards on it it was really weird i haven't seen that pretty much all year they had several 6600 xt's in stock selling for about 550 us dollars which is probably why no one's bought them yet they also had some 6700 xt's a single 6900 xt and an rtx 3080 ti in stock so i just thought i'd share that weird twilight experience that i had in a shop yesterday but anyway let's talk more about our little quadro buddy here now i paid about 280 canadian dollars before tax for this little thing which feels very steep considering that it essentially has a gtx 1650 die in it that nvidia paid somebody to assault with a machete which is why there's a bit of a sound after budget every time but it is 2021 so let's open it up and see what 280 dollars worth of graphics card buys you during the apocalypse oh it's so cute not 280 dollars cute but it's cute so it comes with a lifetime supply of little baby display ports to full size displayport adapters and nothing else really aside from the little graphics card oh that was very gracefully done it does smell really nice for a new graphics card i don't know if that's part of what you pay for when it comes to quadro cards but it's definitely the best smelling graphics card i've ever unboxed now it does have an unsatisfyingly small heatsink even for a gtx 1650 based gpu but like i said before they did actually lob some cores off now this version does have four gigs of gddr6 uh so that is the same frame buffer as some of the versions of the gtx 1650 it's got a very unique selection of display outputs we've got four burber display ports uh which is very useful if you want to get as many video outs on a low profile graphics card as possible wow that is just the gtx 1650 die although like i mentioned in the intro nvidia did quite liberally machete a lot of it away a standard gtx 1650 has 896 shading units 56 tmus and 32 robs whereas this t600 die has 640 shading units 40 tmus and 32 rops but they didn't stop there it also has a lower boost frequency and that results in quite a bit lower tdp of 40 watts as opposed to 75 watts and i guess that means at some point we have to compare this t600 to a gtx 1650 but let's get back to the actual quadro graphics card because if you have a closer look at the memory modules i love how whoever assembled this graphics card just slowly lost interest while applying thermal pads to memory modules the first two are properly covered then the third one has like less than half of the module covered and it's not even in the middle of the module and then finally with the fourth one they didn't even bother with it at all but it is a quadro card so i guess they are built different but anyway on that note i think it's a good time to see how this thing games uh so i'm gonna drop it in the sleeper pc build that i did a while ago that has 16 gigs of ddr4 running at 3600 megahertz with a ryzen 3 5300 so let's let's see what kind of performance we get from this neutered 1650 now i am not expecting a whole lot here it is essentially just a gtx 1650 with one of its legs cut off and to be fair the gtx 1650 kind of needs both its legs uh we're quite optimistically starting with high settings at 1080p so yeah let's see how it goes that's actually not bad uh we've we're not cranked settings wise but this you know the game's looking pretty good and we're averaging a pretty solid 60 frames per second this is definitely a considerable performance upgrade over the igpu in the 5300g that we have here we we'd hope that to be the case um but yeah this is kind of better than i was expecting again for 280 dollars that is horrendous like the fact that we're only averaging 60 frames per second is an outrage okay here we have cs go running at 1080p low settings and yeah it's it's very playable but i mean to be fair it's cs go with 1080p low settings so it would be really surprising if it wasn't playable it does feel a bit input laggy though yeah this is not the greatest cs go gaming experience ever do maternal at 1080p low settings is running okay uh doom feels better at a higher frame rate than this to be honest but it's not bad it's it's definitely playable again it's it's playable if if if the price of the the graphics card is right which i think in this situation in this situation it's not then finally uh we have battlefield 5 running at 1080p low this is with directx 11 and uh we're actually getting very close to a cpu bottleneck here uh with a pretty consistent high 70 to 80 ish frames per second uh honestly it feels pretty good battlefield 5 is uh very playable on the system actually it looks pretty good as well one thing that i will say for all of the games that we've looked at today uh wow that was uh that was a brave move there um but yeah anyway so what i will say is a lot of these games do have very good frame pacing so the game does deliver a very consistent frame rate that feels nice to play now in a vacuum the gaming performance is fine uh in pretty much all of the games i tested we were getting 60 frames per second at 1080p using settings that don't make the games look like something your cat murdered in the shower at 3am um the problem is it's not like the un is airdropping these cards to gamers in need you have to pay for it which i think means this is a good time to compare it to the gtx 1650 which it's based on i only have the gddr5 version of the gtx 1650 available so it means that it's at a little bit of a disadvantage in terms of memory bandwidth but that doesn't really make a difference you'll see that in a bit and with battlefield 5 the cpu was right on the border of being a bottleneck but bearing all of that in mind let's have a look at how these two compare so compared to a graphics card that was launched three years ago for a hundred and fifty dollars and wasn't particularly good value for money when it was launched we're getting about 40 percent less performance for 70 more dollars that really feels like progress doesn't it youthis is the closest thing to a budget and i say the word budget there trying very hard not to throw up in my mouth but it's the closest thing to a budget graphics card i could find in stock at my local pc shop and it's actually not a gt gt710 or gt 1030 it is a lot more obscure than that this is actually an nvidia quadro t600 card which is in fact a quadro card and that means it's it's not designed for gaming but but we should be able to do a little bit of gaming on it although i'm not expecting fireworks here considering that there was nobody knife battling in the streets outside of the shop to get to it so yeah i think it's gonna be pretty bad uh but before we get into just how bad it is it's time for a word from today's video sponsor that helped me pay for it today's video is sponsored by lenode which is a powerful and easy to use linux based web hosting service that's currently the top rated infrastructure as service provider on g2 very impressive lenode also has an extensive marketplace of fully configured one-click apps for whatever use case you need linux based web servers for be it wordpress development file hosting database management video hosting or even games servers lenode has you covered other than that if you have a heavy computational load lenode is an affordable and easily scalable option lenode is also in the process of implementing google pay which will make your monthly payments more seamless if all of this sounds good to you sign up to lenode using the link in my description below to get a 100 60 day credit initially the title for this video was just gonna be i bought the only graphics card i could find in stock but then i went into the shop to go buy this thing looked at a shelf and there were graphics cards on it it was really weird i haven't seen that pretty much all year they had several 6600 xt's in stock selling for about 550 us dollars which is probably why no one's bought them yet they also had some 6700 xt's a single 6900 xt and an rtx 3080 ti in stock so i just thought i'd share that weird twilight experience that i had in a shop yesterday but anyway let's talk more about our little quadro buddy here now i paid about 280 canadian dollars before tax for this little thing which feels very steep considering that it essentially has a gtx 1650 die in it that nvidia paid somebody to assault with a machete which is why there's a bit of a sound after budget every time but it is 2021 so let's open it up and see what 280 dollars worth of graphics card buys you during the apocalypse oh it's so cute not 280 dollars cute but it's cute so it comes with a lifetime supply of little baby display ports to full size displayport adapters and nothing else really aside from the little graphics card oh that was very gracefully done it does smell really nice for a new graphics card i don't know if that's part of what you pay for when it comes to quadro cards but it's definitely the best smelling graphics card i've ever unboxed now it does have an unsatisfyingly small heatsink even for a gtx 1650 based gpu but like i said before they did actually lob some cores off now this version does have four gigs of gddr6 uh so that is the same frame buffer as some of the versions of the gtx 1650 it's got a very unique selection of display outputs we've got four burber display ports uh which is very useful if you want to get as many video outs on a low profile graphics card as possible wow that is just the gtx 1650 die although like i mentioned in the intro nvidia did quite liberally machete a lot of it away a standard gtx 1650 has 896 shading units 56 tmus and 32 robs whereas this t600 die has 640 shading units 40 tmus and 32 rops but they didn't stop there it also has a lower boost frequency and that results in quite a bit lower tdp of 40 watts as opposed to 75 watts and i guess that means at some point we have to compare this t600 to a gtx 1650 but let's get back to the actual quadro graphics card because if you have a closer look at the memory modules i love how whoever assembled this graphics card just slowly lost interest while applying thermal pads to memory modules the first two are properly covered then the third one has like less than half of the module covered and it's not even in the middle of the module and then finally with the fourth one they didn't even bother with it at all but it is a quadro card so i guess they are built different but anyway on that note i think it's a good time to see how this thing games uh so i'm gonna drop it in the sleeper pc build that i did a while ago that has 16 gigs of ddr4 running at 3600 megahertz with a ryzen 3 5300 so let's let's see what kind of performance we get from this neutered 1650 now i am not expecting a whole lot here it is essentially just a gtx 1650 with one of its legs cut off and to be fair the gtx 1650 kind of needs both its legs uh we're quite optimistically starting with high settings at 1080p so yeah let's see how it goes that's actually not bad uh we've we're not cranked settings wise but this you know the game's looking pretty good and we're averaging a pretty solid 60 frames per second this is definitely a considerable performance upgrade over the igpu in the 5300g that we have here we we'd hope that to be the case um but yeah this is kind of better than i was expecting again for 280 dollars that is horrendous like the fact that we're only averaging 60 frames per second is an outrage okay here we have cs go running at 1080p low settings and yeah it's it's very playable but i mean to be fair it's cs go with 1080p low settings so it would be really surprising if it wasn't playable it does feel a bit input laggy though yeah this is not the greatest cs go gaming experience ever do maternal at 1080p low settings is running okay uh doom feels better at a higher frame rate than this to be honest but it's not bad it's it's definitely playable again it's it's playable if if if the price of the the graphics card is right which i think in this situation in this situation it's not then finally uh we have battlefield 5 running at 1080p low this is with directx 11 and uh we're actually getting very close to a cpu bottleneck here uh with a pretty consistent high 70 to 80 ish frames per second uh honestly it feels pretty good battlefield 5 is uh very playable on the system actually it looks pretty good as well one thing that i will say for all of the games that we've looked at today uh wow that was uh that was a brave move there um but yeah anyway so what i will say is a lot of these games do have very good frame pacing so the game does deliver a very consistent frame rate that feels nice to play now in a vacuum the gaming performance is fine uh in pretty much all of the games i tested we were getting 60 frames per second at 1080p using settings that don't make the games look like something your cat murdered in the shower at 3am um the problem is it's not like the un is airdropping these cards to gamers in need you have to pay for it which i think means this is a good time to compare it to the gtx 1650 which it's based on i only have the gddr5 version of the gtx 1650 available so it means that it's at a little bit of a disadvantage in terms of memory bandwidth but that doesn't really make a difference you'll see that in a bit and with battlefield 5 the cpu was right on the border of being a bottleneck but bearing all of that in mind let's have a look at how these two compare so compared to a graphics card that was launched three years ago for a hundred and fifty dollars and wasn't particularly good value for money when it was launched we're getting about 40 percent less performance for 70 more dollars that really feels like progress doesn't it you