New cards marketed for 1080p gaming and creative uses
Render of the 4060 Ti as shown in a press release. Photo by NVIDIA.
By Josh Levin
Published June 2, 2023 | Updated February 18, 2024 at 10:29 am
NVIDIA announced the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti GPUs May 18, with prices ranging from $299 to $499 MSRP.
They released the mid-spec RTX 4060 Ti (8 GB) variant first, making it available for purchase May 24 with a $399 MSRP, according to NVIDIA. The RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) cards will be available in July with MSRPs of $299 and $499 respectively.
NVIDIA markets the cards toward 1080p gamers, emphasizing support for DLSS 3. By running machine learning algorithms on the card’s Tensor cores, DLSS 3 generates additional frames in between conventionally-rendered ones.
Four of the five most popular desktop GPUs are previous-generation 60-tier cards, according to the most recent Steam hardware survey. “These GPUs deliver an incredible upgrade, starting at just $299, putting Ada Lovelace and DLSS 3 in the hands of millions more worldwide,” stated Vice President of Global GeForce Marketing Matt Wuebbling.
NVIDIA compared the new cards to the RTX 2060 SUPER, which ranks No. 21 in the Steam hardware survey with 1.25 percent market share. “The new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) starts at the same $399 price point as the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, but is up to 2.6X faster,” they stated.
The RTX 4060 comes with 3072 CUDA cores, a base clock of 1.83 Ghz and a boost clock of 2.46 Ghz. Both Ti variants have 4352 CUDA cores, a base clock of 2.31 Ghz and a boost clock of 2.54 Ghz.
Both new cards are based on the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which NVIDIA debuted October 2022 in the first 40-series GPUs. According to NVIDIA, the architecture includes fourth-generation tensor cores, third-generation “RT” ray-tracing cores, and support for shader execution reordering.
Shader execution reordering is an optimization technology which changes the order in which shader workloads run. “SER can improve shader performance for ray tracing operations by up to 3X, and in-game frame rates by up to 25 [percent],” NVIDIA stated on their website.
The architecture, and the cards, also support NVIDIA’s eighth-generation NVENC encoder as well as AV1 encode and decode.
“An NVIDIA Founders Edition design of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB will be available directly from NVIDIA.com and select retailers,” NVIDIA stated. “Custom boards for the entire RTX 4060 family, including stock-clocked and factory-overclocked models, will be available from top add-in card providers […] as well as from gaming system integrators and builders worldwide.”
Stated Wuebbling, “The RTX 4060 family delivers PC gamers both great value and great performance at 1080p, whether they’re building a gaming battle box or an AI-assisted creation station.”
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