Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Review vs RTX 3060 vs… PlayStation 5?



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Nvidia’s RTX 4060 has excellent efficiency, can run Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive very nicely and DLSS 3 has its uses – but that’s matched against benchmark results that vary drastically against RX 7600, RTX 3060 and Arc A750 where it struggles to be competitive. Rich runs the gamut of the various benchmarks, then moves the RTX 4060 over to the mainstream gaming PC it was intended for. With a look at the future of gaming in mind, can the RTX 4060 keep up with Sony’s PlayStation 5?

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00:00 Introduction
00:27 Perf Improvements Good & Bad
01:20 Ada Features Do Have Value
02:50 Cut-Back Specifications
04:05 No Reference Card, MSI Ventus Reviewed
05:00 Exceptional Efficiency
07:23 Ray Tracing Performance
11:57 Rasterisation Performance
15:04 Benchmarking + Competitive Summary
16:29 RTX 4060 vs Cyberpunk RT Overdrive
18:48 A Plague Tale Requiem: RTX 4060 vs PS5
20:41 Spider-Man Miles Morales: RTX 4060 vs PS5
22:09 Fortnite: RTX 4060 vs Unreal Engine 5
24:06 Metro Exodus Enhanced: RTX 4060 vs PS5
25:42 Control: RTX 4060 vs PS5
27:20 Final Thoughts & Conclusions

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33 thoughts on “Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Review vs RTX 3060 vs… PlayStation 5?”

  1. I'm looking for a reasonably priced option for gpu compute work (so CUDA is a must), some gaming and a TDP under 150W for a 1060 6GB upgrade — Do I really have any options other than the (fairly mediocre) 4060?

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  2. Lets wait a while until the AI hype simmers down a bit. Nvidia wil get a ban on selling AI cips to China and we will see their stock drop as a result. Then we will see Nvidia getting their head out of the money cloud back to realism and they will start selling GPU's at gamers for a decent bang/buck ratio again.

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  3. The Forza Horizon 5 numbers are just completely wrong. Both the 4060 and 7600 Joules/frame are incorrect and so the power differential is completely messed up. I was expecting better double-checking on numbers.

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  4. The 4060 and 4060 TI have the proper ammount of VRAM for the class of hardware they have, it is just unfortunate that Nvidia took this ~$149 50 class hardware, and re-named it to the 4060TI for $400-$500

    Corporate would like you to spot the differences between these two hardware specs
    200mm² 128 bit 1650
    190mm² 128 bit 4060TI

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  5. Crazy how we've gone from the xx80 series card being 50-60% faster than the xx60 in the 9,10 and 20 series all the way up to 125% faster in 40 series. It's very clear that Nvidia has crippled it's low end to push the higher end cards. There's more of a performance gap going from 3080 to 4080 than 2060 to 4060, that's pathetic.

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  6. I’ll never understand the argument for ray tracing for such slow cards. Why force yourself to play with such diminished fps, settings, and resolution for a feature that barely makes any difference?

    Sure, with a 4090 go for it. Anything less is just wasted performance and/or visuals.

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  7. This has been the most confusing and lackluster period of time for PC gaming. These cards have literally become the same as phone upgrades and consoles have surprisingly held their value. These tiny 10 fps differentials are not even worth the hassle.

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  8. As interesting as these videos are, I kind of miss the days where our choices were software rendering or hardware rendering/3D accelerator. There were very clear differences in how games looked and ran based on the few choices available.

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  9. Funny how the RTX 60 tiers kind of almost have the same numbers especially when RT is off. Tis really makes one feel like its not worth it upgrading from a 60 tier card to another 60 tier card except for the availability of the new features like DLSS 3 which is quiet the feature. I currently use an RTX2060, and it really holds up pretty well in modern titles

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  10. My feeling about the 40 series cards is they were conceived during a period of energy crisis (in Europe at least) so the product makes sense (joules per frame) in that environment. The problem is the dominant metric for benchmarking is still frames per second.

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  11. I will say it again. DLSS3 is garbage.

    It doesn't contribute to latency reduction that you usually get from real high framerates. And latency matters even in single player games. Just moving the camera with mouse feels less floaty and as a result more comfortable with lower latency.

    Just because single player games can be manageable with higher latency, doesn't mean it justifies garbage tier performance from a GPU that's priced that high. You can play single player games at 20 fps too if you really want.

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  12. The Arc A770 isn't discontinued, only the Intel-branded Limited Edition model was discontinued (hence, the "Limited Edition" label). Partner cards are still being made. Seems like it's every other week since launch that someone proclaims Arc GPUs to be dead.

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  13. So far this gen nothing under a 4070 (12GB) is even slightly interesting (and that needs to be $500 imo). Can't wait to see what AMD has to offer with the 7700/7800's.

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