

There is a $2 coming later this year as well, which will be slightly more affordable, but I miss the days when the GTX 1060 was a $249 1080p champion. Just like any other Nvidia RTX 4000 graphics card, the RTX 4060 Ti is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture, bringing with it third-generation ray tracing cores and fourth-generation Tensor cores. Essentially, that means this generation can handle ray tracing and AI upscaling workloads better than ever. But that effiency comes with a catch for the RTX 4060 Ti. You see, this graphics card only has 34 Streaming Multiprocessors, with a total CUDA core count of 4,352, down from the 4,864 cores found in the RTX 3060 Ti – at the same price. It also has the same amount of VRAM as the last-generation card, at 8GB, but on a slower 128-bit memory bus. If the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture wasn't strictly better than Ampere, the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti would be a strict down-grade in terms of raw paper specs. Shaving down the GPU does mean Nvidia can save on power. This graphics card only has a TGP, or total graphics power, of 160W. The RTX 3060 Ti, on the other hand, will suck 200W of power from your PSU. This does allow the graphics card to save a bit on cooling, with the RTX 4060 Ti only reaching 68☌ in my testing suite. That might have something to do with the cooler, though. Similarly to the RTX 4070 Founders Edition, Nvidia found a way to import the dual-fan pass through design that started with the RTX 3080 to this tiny graphics card.
#Evga 3080 queue Pc#
The way this cooler works is it sucks up air through the bottom of the graphics card and spits out the hot air up towards your RAM where most PC builds have the most robust cooling. This cooler design is why the monstrous RTX 4090 doesn't melt in its shell, but with a card that uses so little electricity, it's able to keep things incredibly cool. But, again like all the rest of the RTX 4000 cards, the RTX 4060 Ti uses the divisive 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector, rather than a traditional 8-pin PCIe connector. So, yeah, even with this more affordable graphics card, you're going to need a power adapter, even though it would only need a single 8-pin connection to function.

I sat here for a good 20 minutes trying to think about what to say about RTX 4060 Ti performance and all that really needs to be said is "yeah, that's a graphics card". At the base level it's a graphics card that has no problem running any current game with ray tracing at 1080p, and that's not nothing. If you buy this graphics card and you're upgrading from an older GPU like the GTX 1060 or RTX 2060, you're going to get a sizeable bump in 1080p performance. Test system: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, Asus ROG Crosshair X670E HERO, 32GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5 6000Hz, 1TB PNY CS3140 SSD, EVGA Supernova 1000W P2 PSUįor these graphics card benchmarks, I tested all games at their highest preset, with ray tracing where available.
