Wednesday, March 27th 2024
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Slides Down to $279
With competition in the performance segment of graphics cards heating up, the GeForce RTX 4060 "Ada" finds itself embattled at its $299 price point, with the Radeon RX 7600 XT at $325, the RX 7600 (non-XT) down to $250. This has prompted a retailer-level price-cut for a Zotac-branded RTX 4060 graphics card. The Zotac RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White is listed on Newegg for $279, which puts it $20 below the NVIDIA MSRP. The RTX 4060 is squarely a 1080p-class GPU, designed for AAA gameplay with maxed out settings, and ray tracing. The one ace the RTX 4060 wields over similarly-priced GPUs from the previous generation has to be DLSS 3 Frame Generation. Our most recent testing puts the RX 7600 within 2% of the RTX 4060 at 1080p raster workloads, although the ray tracing performance of the RTX 4060 is significantly ahead, by around 16%.
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38 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Slides Down to $279
However, I wouldn't mind a cheap upgrade to a 4060/7600 (or a used 3060ti/6700XT if the new card pricing puts downward pressure on the used market).
Would still be a huge boost in performance and more VRAM than I have now. Maybe I can nab a 6600XT for closer to $125 used if the new cards keep dropping in price...
It used to be that video cards were launched at sane prices and could be had for cheap when close to being replaced. Nowadays video cards launch at ridiculous prices and when close to being replace they hit what should have been the launch MSRP. A good time to be making or selling these, I guess.
Of course it's not an optimal card for RT, but it's still usable.
However, I agree with the "too late" opinion here. $280 would be delicious for a 4060 Ti, even if 8 GB, yet a plain 4060 doesn't impress at the 250+ USD mark.
I know what I'd pick between a PS5/XBX or an RTX 4060 equipped PC.
The 4060 is a tiny 159mm2 die, even with the PCB and all NV would still be making money at $200 I figure.
Problem is there is such a demand for Silicon nowadays that NV would rather sell a company 800mm2 of H100 silicon for $50,000 than 150mm2 of silicon for $200. Might as well jack up the price until the demand comes down. Wish they'd just fab their lower end stuff on Samsung or TSMC 6 or something so it isn't competing with the bleeding edge stuff with much much higher ASP & margins so they can get more of it out there.
N4 vs N4P for higher end stuff.
RTX 4060 is a low-mid gaming GPU (from the price perspective) and it, despite delivering >60 FPS at 1080p in almost any existing video game at high/max settings (sometimes even with RT enabled), doesn't impress. Anyway, playing aforementioned Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p High (no RT, no DLSS, no FG) is a real possibility at 80+ FPS given you have a fast enough CPU+RAM system.
However, I am not being ripped off since I'm simply not buying,
So does not matter nVidia push down the price, if USA economy's influence to the other part of world is hurts and many currency's value of the world is 5-20% less to USD before 2019 COVID.
What can we do? Something simmilar that you said, not buying.
What I can do: I buy less american shits and prefering locals or other part of the world, because I fed up with this american hegemony market policy that disrespect other part of the world.
Here the price is pretty much this:
Buy the RX6600 8GB, it's $190 brand new - or pick up a used 3070 which has plummeted in value simply because 8GB is way too little VRAM for a card of its calibre.
If you must have a brand new Nvidia card for CUDA and DLSS then buy a last-gen 3060 12GB for $20 less. It's barely 10% slower but you don't have to suffer a crippled PCIe lane count or the pathetic 128-bit bus that belongs solely in the sub-$200 sector. In 2025 you may need to use DLSS to get playable frame rates but at least you will be able to load the detailed textures, which are 90% of what matters when it comes to image quality.