Introduction

Palit GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC is the company's affordable yet factory-overclocked custom-design rendition of NVIDIA's latest performance segment graphics card. The Dual series of graphics cards form Palit's most affordable product offerings in any series, and the RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC in this review has a sibling that sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock speeds, although we're not sure if it also sells at the $399 MSRP. The Dual OC is priced at a "small premium," Palit didn't give us any exact number. If you're wondering why you're seeing many custom-design RTX 4060 Ti reviews being published today (May 24), it's because NVIDIA gave the cards that sell at its MSRP a 1-day advantage with the review postings.

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is designed to help NVIDIA consolidate in the crucial performance segment, with its starting price of $399 that's unchanged from that of the RTX 3060 Ti. It is designed for 1080p AAA gaming with nearly maxed-out settings, including ray tracing, while also being capable of 1440p if you know your way around game settings, or can get GeForce Experience to find the right ones for you. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is among a 3-part RTX 4060 series NVIDIA is planning for at three distinct price points. The RTX 4060 Ti launching today has a $399 MSRP, and comes with an 8 GB VRAM size. Its 16 GB variant bound for July is priced at $500, and the most affordable RTX 4060 at $299. All three have essentially the same use-case of 1080p gaming at varying grades of eye-candy.



The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is very much a next-generation graphics card, it's based on the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, and 5 nm silicon, so you get generational performance/watt uplifts, besides a few exclusive features such as DLSS 3 Frame Generation—a feature that leverages the Optical Flow Accelerator component to draw entire frames purely out of AI, without involving the graphics rendering pipeline. This effectively doubles frame-rates in games that are optimized for the feature. DLSS 3 is of particular significance in this market-segment, where the framerate doubling can be used to dial up settings, or even display resolution. The Ada Lovelace graphics architecture debuts the 3rd generation of RTX, NVIDIA's ground-breaking technology that combines real time ray traced elements with conventional raster 3D graphics. NVIDIA has made its RT cores—now in their third generation—more capable and independent of the general purpose CUDA cores; and made its AI-accelerating Tensor cores (4th Gen) more capable, with support for newer math formats.

The RTX 4060 Ti is based on the 5 nm AD106 silicon, which it nearly maxes out, by featuring 34 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors (SM) physically present. This translates to 4,352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 RT cores, 136 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The card gets the same 8 GB of memory size as the RTX 3060 Ti, but a narrower 128-bit memory interface. NVIDIA is using faster 18 Gbps memory chips, but the real innovation, the company claims, is at an architectural-level, with greater emphasis on large on-die caches that reduce the roundtrips to the video memory, allowing NVIDIA to slim down the memory interface to undoubtedly save costs.

The Palit RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC is a simple affair, with a lightweight, dual-slot, aluminium fin-stack heatsink that's ventilated by a pair of fans (which is where the SKU gets its name from). The card offers factory-overclocked speeds of 2685 MHz boost, compared to 2535 MHz reference boost; while the memory is left untouched at 18 Gbps. Palit opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector instead of the fancy new 16-pin ATX 12VHPWR, which should help a great deal with compatibility. With a TGP of just 160 W, there's plenty of power on tap, even for a factory-overclocked card. Palit hasn't provided us with any pricing, only "slightly above MSRP," so we'll be using $420 throughout this review.