Introduction

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 WindForce OC is a custom-design graphics card based on NVIDIA's latest mainstream GPU. The WindForce OC is priced at the NVIDIA MSRP, and to sweeten the deal, the company has included a slight factory-overclock for its GPU. The Gigabyte WindForce is for those that just want to buy into the performance and features the RTX 4060 brings to the table, and don't care too much about the card's aesthetics—something to install and forget about, to get gaming. Helping things are the card's extremely compact dimensions, which should make it a good fit for SFF cases and external-GPU enclosures.



The GeForce RTX 4060 is designed to offer 1080p gaming with max settings. It succeeds a long line of best-selling graphics cards by NVIDIA, including the RTX 3060, RTX 2060, and the GTX 1060, which have been topping the Steam Hardware Survey for a while now. Over two-thirds of PC gamers still play at 1080p, so NVIDIA's task is cut-out with the RTX 4060—to offer a good price-performance equation at the $300-mark, complete with next-generation features.

Since it's based on the latest GeForce Ada Lovelace architecture, the RTX 4060 offers two distinct advantages over the RTX 3060, besides its generationally improved performance. First, you get DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which nearly doubles performance for games that support it, by drawing entire alternate frames completely using AI, and without involving the graphics rendering machinery. Second, the RTX 4060 is built on the 5 nm foundry node, and comes with a typical power-draw of just 115 W—comparable to that of a CPU. This is a 50% claimed energy-efficiency improvement over the RTX 3060.

The GeForce RTX 4060 debuts the new AD107 silicon, which is NVIDIA's smallest for this generation, compared to the AD106 powering the RTX 4060 Ti. This silicon is maxed out, enabling all 24 streaming multiprocessors, which work out to 3,072 CUDA cores, 24 RT cores, 96 Tensor cores, 96 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The memory sub-system is similar to that of the RTX 4060 Ti, with 8 GB of 17 Gbps GDDR6 memory on offer, with the memory speed being slightly slower than the 18 Gbps of the Ti. Generationally, both the memory size and bus width see a 50% reduction (compared to the original RTX 3060), but NVIDIA claims this has been overcome with large on-die L2 caches that are anywhere between 8 to 12 times larger than those in the previous generation, which reduce dependency on the video memory by 40% to 60%, letting NVIDIA slim down the memory bus.

As we mentioned earlier, the Gigabyte RTX 4060 WindForce OC comes with a rather basic design that covers all the essentials for a custom-design RTX 4060 graphics card, with a bonus small factory overclock of 2475 MHz, compared to 2460 MHz reference. It's being offered at the NVIDIA MSRP of $300.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 10x RTX 4060

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