MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming X

[W1zzard]

MSI's GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming X achieves impressive noise levels that are whisper quiet and temperatures are low, too. Unlike other vendors, MSI achieves that with a compact dual-slot card, which ensures it will fit into all cases out there, and PSU requirements are minimal, too.

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[Taisho]

Better efficiency yes, but it raises a question of whether this much lower voltage at high frequencies is because of the good design and components or only because the competition has bigger safety margins for what is an equally performing design.

 

[Chrispy_]

This one is selling for £330 in the UK, compared to £303 for the base models. At least it's not the ridiculously overpolished turd that the Asus Strix is!

These "factory OC" models may be the biggest flop of any mainstream GPU in recent history. It's not appreciably faster than the RX 7600 at £250, and even that is a hard sell when you can find 6600XT on clearance for as little as £209.

The performance of the 4060 isn't really the issue, but there's an upper limit to an 8GB card simply because even at 1080p you have to turn down settings in plenty of games now. Paying over $/£/€250 for 8GB is stupid, short-sighted, and it's no surprise that every independent journalist under the sun has been warning about the problem of just 8GB on GPUs for almost a full year now.

 

[Al Chafai]

Did you mix up the 4060/4060Ti placements on Forza Horizon 5 test? the Vanilla is way faster than the Ti.

 

[W1zzard]

Did you mix up the 4060/4060Ti placements on Forza Horizon 5 test? the Vanilla is way faster than the Ti.

Nice catch, looks like the 4060 Ti ran way slower than expected. Will retest

Edit: Fixed, all charts in all reviews have been updated

 

[AusWolf]

So it's basically a cheaper and more efficient 2080. Not great, not terrible. If they drop the price to match the 7600, it'll be the first Ada card that I'm happy to recommend despite the 8 GB VRAM, which I don't think is too bad at this price and performance level.

Thanks for the review!

 

[PapaTaipei]

Better buy a used 1080ti

 

[W1zzard]

Summary video comparing all 10 cards

 

[DBGT]

Why 6950 XT has been removed from your review datasheet? actually it is one of the best price/performance GPU.

 

[AusWolf]

Why 6950 XT has been removed from your review datasheet? actually it is one of the best price/performance GPU.

If I remember right, that's because they don't have a reference version, and the datasheet only includes stock/reference cards.

 

[W1zzard]

If I remember right, that's because they don't have a reference version, and the datasheet only includes stock/reference cards.

Why 6950 XT has been removed from your review datasheet? actually it is one of the best price/performance GPU.

Correct, I asked AMD a couple of times, they don't have any reference cards, also for 6750 XT, same thing. Is it worth buying a 6950 XT reference, at this time, just for this purpose? I don't think so. Happy to include it if you send a card or sponsor the cost.

Edit: just checked, used two ref cards can be found here in Germany: 1022 € and 766 €

 

[intrvlvr]

How can it consume 125 in gaming but only 108 as maximum in gaming?

 

[Chrispy_]

How can it consume 125 in gaming but only 108 as maximum in gaming?

Good point. 108W max looks off for a card that has a 115W power limit by default. Typically power limit (or V_rel, AKA max boost bin reached) are where Nvidia GPUs spend most of their time.

I'll assume it's a typo or those two numbers are the wrong way around. 125W max power draw would seem much more in line with the way Nvidia strictly enforce their adherence to power limits, the extra 10W over the 115W being attributed to powering fans and VRM efficiency losses only.

 

[Llun]

Can someone explain me how the Hynix memory chips model number H56G42AS6DX-014 that this 4060 model uses (specified to run at 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective)) can overclock to 2655Mhz (more than 21 Gbps effective)? Do these Hynix chips overclock that well? My MSI 4060 Gaming X uses Samsung memory chips (model K4ZAF325BC-SC20 I think) and can "only" overclock to ~2500 (20 Gbps effective).