The GeForce RTX 4080 (test) has just been released and the alleged RTX 4070 (Ti) is not even official yet, so rumors about the RTX 4060 are already doing the rounds. So far, however, it has been mere speculation without any evidence – even if this is often overlooked.
No, there is no information to the RTX 4060
Anyone who tries to keep up to date with current events surrounding next-gen graphics cards will have stumbled across numerous reports on the RTX 4060 today. In many places, rumors went hand in hand with a classification of the estimated performance in Nvidia's existing graphics card range; a price is already making the rounds. According to this, the mid-range graphics accelerator – of which it is currently not even known whether it will ever exist – should offer around 20 percent more performance than a GeForce RTX 3060 (test), DLSS 3 (test), support the new NVENC encoder have on board, consume around 150 watts to 180 watts and cost around 400 US dollars in June 2023.
At first glance, these cornerstones appear coherent, as they are obvious when looking at the RTX 3060, which in turn offered around 20 percent more performance than the RTX 2060. And this is exactly where the rumors are based – because the source itself admits Log of “not knowing what the RTX 4060 looks like”; they are just assumptions. We're talking about Lenovo's responsible manager for the Chinese desktop gaming market, Wolfstame, who comments on the Chinese forum Weibo (via Twitter).
RTX 4000 and mid-class are currently alien
There may be reasons why he does not present his own statements as insider knowledge, but declares them to be conjectures from the outset: the graphics card rumor mill of the past few months has been more and more wrong, especially with regard to AMD's Radeon RX 7900 XT(X), numerous leakers made a fool of themselves completely wrong predictions. And the assumption that the RTX 4060 will rely on the AD106 GPU ultimately does not have to be true: only the RTX 4080 has shown that Nvidia can break with the schemes usual for older generations, but uses the second Ada Lovelace graphics card the AD103 and not a slimmed down AD102, as it works in the RTX 4090 (test). So far, the two most powerful GeForce graphics accelerators of a new generation have usually shared one and the same graphics chip, albeit with a different number of activated execution units.
From a neutral point of view, the verdict can only be: Anyone who currently claims to know the specifications or performance data of an RTX 4060 is fooling their audience. In view of the fact that Nvidia only a few weeks ago considered both the RTX 3060 and the RTX 3060 Ti (test) with new editions that bring an additional memory configuration or faster memory chips, it can also be assumed that Nvidia is the middle class at least will be operated exclusively with the Ampere generation (RTX 3000) in the medium term. In any case, the new Ada Lovelace generation is priced well above the Ampere graphics cards – and the latter still want to be sold. It may be a long time before an RTX 4060 and with it the first concrete specifications and performance data appear.