Introduction

ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC is the company's value custom-design graphics card model priced at MSRP, based on NVIDIA's performance-segment fast-mover, the RTX 4060 Ti (8 GB). This card features an aesthetically pleasing board design that's both compact and sober-looking. It doesn't have a flashy RGB setup, but instead a two-tone cooler-shroud and a triple-slot cooling solution with two large axial-flow fans.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is designed for maxed out gaming with ray tracing at 1080p as well as 1440p, although with ray tracing enabled, you have to get clever with your game's settings, let GeForce Experience find the right settings, or better yet, take advantage of features such as DLSS. In recent weeks, NVIDIA has launched a 16 GB variant of the RTX 4060 Ti, which we found to offer an inadequate performance uplift over the 8 GB original to justify its 25% price premium. The RTX 4060 Ti, with its starting price of $399, competes with similarly priced last-generation cards that are 1440p-capable. What RTX 4060 Ti has to offer besides improved energy efficiency, is the DLSS 3 Frame Generation feature.



The RTX 4060 Ti is firmly a next-gen graphics card as it's based on the same Ada Lovelace graphics architecture powering the rest of the RTX 40-series. Besides groundbreaking efficiency from the 5 nm foundry node, "Ada" introduces improvements across all its on-die components, introduces new hardware, and re-architects the memory subsystem. The new "Ada" CUDA core, in addition to increased IPC and support for new math formats, comes with shader execution re-ordering. The 3rd generation RT core, besides generational improvements to the ray intersection performance, adds support displaced micro-meshes, which increases the complexity of ray traced objects. The new Optical Flow Accelerator component assists in the generation of entire alternate frames entirely using AI, which is why DLSS 3 Frame Generation is exclusive to the RTX 40-series.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is based on the 5 nm AD106 silicon, which it nearly maxes out, enabling 34 out of 36 SM (streaming multiprocessors). This works out to 4,352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 RT cores, 136 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. While the 8 GB memory size of this card isn't changed from that of the previous-generation RTX 3060 Ti, the memory bus width has been halved to 128-bit. While NVIDIA is using faster 18 Gbps memory speeds, the memory bandwidth still falls quite a bit behind that of its predecessor. NVIDIA says that it has significantly re-architected the video memory sub-system with Ada, with greater on-die cache dependence. The company has enlarged last-level caches by 8-12 times on all GPUs in this generation.

The ASUS RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC comes with a compact board design, a dual-fan setup using the company's popular Axial-Tech fans that direct all their airflow axially thanks to webbed impellers; and a proper aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, which should be plenty given the TGP of 160 W. ASUS is backing the card with a handy factory overclock, with the GPU running at 2565 MHz (compared to 2535 MHz reference), while the memory speed is left untouched at 18 Gbps. The best aspect about this card has to be its price, with ASUS asking no more than the $399 baseline MSRP that NVIDIA set for the RTX 4060 Ti.

Packaging

The Card

The ASUS Dual OC looks bulky and muscular. The color theme consists of black, with some gray highlights. While main cooler shroud is made of plastic, the backplate is metal.


Dimensions of the card are 23.0 x 12.5 cm, and it weighs 676 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 50 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere).

The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


ASUS opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, this configuration is good for up to 225 W.

Teardown

ASUS lets you remove the main cooler shroud, so the fans can be cleaned and replaced easily, without disturbing the thermal paste on the main cooler.


The thermal solution on the ASUS Dual uses a copper base, paired with three heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.

High-resolution PCB Pictures

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High-resolution versions are also available (front, back).

Circuit Board (PCB) Analysis

GPU voltage is a five-phase design, managed by a uPI uP9512R controller.


Alpha & Omega Semiconductor BLN3-AOZ5311NQI DrMOS are used for the GPU power phases, these are each capable of 55 A.


Memory voltage is a single-phase design, and handled by a UPI uP1540P controller.


For memory, ASUS is using a set of Sinotech QN3106 and QN3104 discrete MOSFETs rated for 50 A.


The GDDR6 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H56G42AS6DX-014. They are specified to run at 2250 MHz (18 Gbps effective).


NVIDIA's AD106 graphics processor is the company's fourth Ada Lovelace GPU. It is built using a 5 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan, with a transistor count of 22.9 billion and a die size of 190 mm².

Test System

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

• All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used for all results in this review.
• All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
• All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
• AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
• Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.
• For better real-life applicability, all game tests use custom in-game test scenes, not the integrated benchmarks
• All cards used for comparison are reference designs. When a reference design does not exist, we go the extra mile and buy the closest possible match, using reference clocks and default power limit.

Each game is tested at these screen resolutions:

• 1920x1080: Most popular monitor resolution.
• 2560x1440: Intermediary resolution between Full HD and 4K, with reasonable performance requirements.
• 3840x2160: 4K Ultra HD resolution, available on high-end monitors.