Thursday, June 22nd 2023
NVIDIA Makes GeForce RTX 4060 MSRP Official - Starting at $299
In May we announced the GeForce RTX 4060 Family, and launched the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. On June 29th, the GeForce RTX 4060 will go on sale, with prices starting at $299. For gamers playing on previous-gen GPUs, the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture at the heart of the GeForce RTX 4060 delivers a massive upgrade, multiplying your performance, and supercharging creative apps. And thanks to the Ada architecture's industry-leading efficiency, you'll use measurably less power, your graphics card will run cooler, and fans will run at quieter speeds or even idle.
Based on the May 2023 Steam Hardware Survey, 9 of the top 10 most used GPUs on Steam are 60 Class or lower, and 77% of Steam gamers play at 1080p or lower resolutions. For these gamers, the new GeForce RTX 4060 is a great upgrade, enabling them to play new, more demanding games at 1080p at excellent levels of fidelity. For gamers coming from a GeForce RTX 2060, performance is multiplied by an average of 2.3X across a suite of 18 games, and for GeForce GTX 1060 users, in addition to higher frame rates, they also get ray tracing and DLSS acceleration for the first time.
"Unleash the GeForce RTX 4060 in Dying Light 2 Stay Human and high frame rates at max settings is no sweat" - Tomasz Szałkowski, Techland. See the performance and efficiency of the new GeForce RTX 4060 in these clips from Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Returnal, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide:
These substantial improvements enable you to enjoy the majority of games at high frames with max settings including ray tracing. And thanks to NVIDIA DLSS 3, you can experience some of the industry's most advanced games running at over 100 FPS, at the highest possible detail levels.
Through a process detailed in full in our NVIDIA DLSS 3 article, DLSS 3 combines DLSS Super Resolution technology, DLSS Frame Generation and NVIDIA Reflex to multiply performance while maintaining great responsiveness.
Developers have adopted DLSS 3 seven times faster than DLSS 2, meaning more games boast support each month. DLSS 3 is available or coming to over 50 games and apps, DLSS Super Resolution is supported in over 310 games and apps, and over 400 games and apps feature support for RTX technologies.
While outpacing previous-generation GPUs by a considerable margin, the GeForce RTX 4060 reduces power consumption across the board, whether you're gaming, watching videos, or hanging with friends on Discord.
At recent energy prices, the average gamer playing 10-20 hours a week could save a significant amount, while having a vastly superior gaming experience. In Germany, for example, a gamer playing 20 hours a week could save up to $132 in energy costs over the course of 4 years, when upgrading from an RTX 3060 to an RTX 4060.
All GeForce RTX GPU owners can also tap into an ecosystem of apps and technologies to further enhance gaming, work and creativity. Get the fastest ray tracing performance with GeForce RTX 40 Series and its dedicated 3rd gen Ray Tracing Cores. Make gameplay in over 70 titles more responsive with Reflex. Enjoy industry leading Virtual Reality performance, watch and stream with improved clarity thanks to AV1 codec support, enhance your webcam and mic with the free Broadcast app, and eliminate screen tearing with variable refresh rate G-SYNC displays. Get frequent driver updates with a single click via the feature-rich GeForce Experience client, and accelerate your workflows in leading work, productivity and creativity applications with NVIDIA Studio optimizations and enhancements.
If you're searching for a meaningful upgrade that will enable you to enjoy today's blockbuster games at faster frame rates and higher detail levels, look no further, the GeForce RTX 4060 arrives June 29th.
To add the GeForce RTX 4060 to your system, or to purchase a pre-built with our newest GPU, head over to our Product Finder on launch day at 6 a.m. Pacific Time to see what's available in your region.
GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards will be available from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, GALAX, GIGABYTE, INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and ZOTAC, and in desktops from leading system builders worldwide.
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NVIDIA News
Based on the May 2023 Steam Hardware Survey, 9 of the top 10 most used GPUs on Steam are 60 Class or lower, and 77% of Steam gamers play at 1080p or lower resolutions. For these gamers, the new GeForce RTX 4060 is a great upgrade, enabling them to play new, more demanding games at 1080p at excellent levels of fidelity. For gamers coming from a GeForce RTX 2060, performance is multiplied by an average of 2.3X across a suite of 18 games, and for GeForce GTX 1060 users, in addition to higher frame rates, they also get ray tracing and DLSS acceleration for the first time.
These substantial improvements enable you to enjoy the majority of games at high frames with max settings including ray tracing. And thanks to NVIDIA DLSS 3, you can experience some of the industry's most advanced games running at over 100 FPS, at the highest possible detail levels.
Developers have adopted DLSS 3 seven times faster than DLSS 2, meaning more games boast support each month. DLSS 3 is available or coming to over 50 games and apps, DLSS Super Resolution is supported in over 310 games and apps, and over 400 games and apps feature support for RTX technologies.
To add the GeForce RTX 4060 to your system, or to purchase a pre-built with our newest GPU, head over to our Product Finder on launch day at 6 a.m. Pacific Time to see what's available in your region.
GeForce RTX 4060 graphics cards will be available from top add-in card providers such as ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, GALAX, GIGABYTE, INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY and ZOTAC, and in desktops from leading system builders worldwide.
33 Comments on NVIDIA Makes GeForce RTX 4060 MSRP Official - Starting at $299
Our only hope at this point is if Intel shows up with an actually competitive product. AMD's proven they're basically cooperating with Nvidia because they, too, have things they'd prefer to use their fabs for besides making competitive GPU's.
This is a little more interesting as an upgrade, but it's not much of an upgrade for RTX 30-series systems that have a PCIe 4.0 slot, but for older systems that still have a 20-series or 10-series card in a PCIe 3.0 slot, the x8 interface on this card will eat into the performance gains. So it's not interesting as an upgrade.
Intel Arc wasn't very exciting because it had to compete with this new generation, but now that we have this new generation of cards and they're all disappointing, and Arc drivers have gotten better, Arc is looking pretty interesting at least for systems that support resizeable bar.
Not sure I'd go as far as to call it efficient. It might be efficient in the german concentration camp sense of giving someone less means you saved more but it's Nvidia that is saving and not the consumer.
8 GB of VRAM is going to bite the green troll in the backside pretty painfully.
For those who have no clue how bad 8 GB of VRAM is, there is a YouTube video:
8GB stutterfest and ugly, fake images:
* using DLSS and RT when possible
So that's why Nvidia made software based RT available on the 10 series, to make deceptive marketing claims like this one. I gotta appreciate it from a marketing standpoint though as deceiving your customers for profit is a basic tenet of business.
For people with older cards (e.g. GTX 1060, RX480, GTX 970...etc.), this card would still represent a large performance improvement in absolute terms. Value-wise it'd be best to wait for a price drop or pick up something like an RX6700/6750 while they're still around and going for cheap.
4060 - 3072 Cuda $300
5,33 more Cuda. 5.33 the MSRP. the only oddball is the 4080. we should be given the full 10240 Cuda at $1K by now
Especially in power consumption. "Look, we unshitted our new GPUs, you can now spend 300 to save 28,70~66,14 bucks."
The more you buy, the more you save ehIts very realistic to mention power consumption as a 100% usage scenario, because every game can potentially hit that, and most players will definitely want all the performance out of their GPU. Limitations to that are set mostly in the highest end of the stack, where there is actual headroom. If you run an x70, you won't do that quite so much, and an x60 most definitely will run max util most of the time.
You can't confront different architecture like that. It is just performance, and costs.
A graphic card never go 100% on his power consumption on gaming, standard clocks. Never. Not one. You need Furmark to do that simply because games doesn't use all the hardware at all time.
And some games can also never use all the power.
Probably you never read a TPU review, or can't comprehend what you read. You are confusing power as electrical and performance (GPU usage).
Realistically, a player goes 7-10 hour in media, and a kwh goes from 0,11 to 0,36 in EU (0,5 maybe in the early months of ukraine war), so the figures on saving are more like what is listed as USA for EU.
RX 7600 TDP: 165W
Gaming results:
And average across all games is 167W.
Have a read, this is the reason all GPUs do use all power they can allocate - obviously whenever they are not limited.
www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/15
Also...
These are perfectly comparable. All things scale over time, but die size and SKU positions barely do.
The fact simply is, we're using more power to get playable frames. Stories about power savings are fairy tales.
People with older cards (e.g. 1060, 480, 970) can buy the RTX 3060 12GB because it will be better, both now and in the future.
12GB >> 8GB. Don't buy any 8 GB today unless you want an integrated-GPU class | replacement.
The mid-range offer is horrifying..
200-250€ would be more suited (I’m saying € not $)