Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti: rumors speak of 3070 performance for $ 500

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Gradually, the rumors about the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which are becoming more and more concrete, paint a coherent picture. While the first details of the AD106 GPU chip presumably used were already revealed in December 2022, there are now also initial indications of the expected performance and price.

Clarity about the chip, questions about the memory

With the GeForce RTX 4090 (test), GeForce RTX 4080 (test) and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (test), Nvidia has so far launched three desktop graphics cards from the RTX 4000 series. According to the recommended retail price, entry into Ada Lovelace is around 900 euros – and for most gamers that is too much money, as the Sunday question on the financial pain limit for gaming PCs or the surveys on the launch of the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti showed. Cheaper next-gen graphics cards are therefore eagerly awaited in many places – and with the GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, Nvidia has two more models in the pipeline, as the rumor mill has been reporting unanimously for weeks.

Although the GeForce RTX 4070 is supposed to go into production as early as February 2023 and the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti not until March, the information on the latter is already more comprehensive. For weeks, the use of the AD106-350-A1 GPU with 4,452 activated FP32 execution units has been considered set. There are now consistent rumors about memory expansion, which speak of 8 GB GDDR6 memory and a 128-bit interface; However, this information should be treated with caution: The bandwidth would drop to just 288 GB/s due to the narrow memory interface, which raises doubts in view of the 488 GB/s or 608 GB/s of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (test). On the other hand, the L2 cache, which was enlarged by a factor of 10 when Nvidia switched from Ampere to Ada Lovelace, could come into play here and compensate for the lower bandwidth.

Overview of suspected specifications of future Nvidia graphics cards (Image: VideoCardz)

In any case, the performance of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti should be at the level of a GeForce RTX 3070 (test) and thus also a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (test), as Twitter user @kopite7kimi notes. When compared to the 7,680 FP32-ALUs strong GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, this expectation seems realistic, as the GeForce RTX 3070 is around 40 percent behind the Ada Lovelace graphics card in the WQHD performance rating. However, this calculation does not take into account the currently rumored memory expansion of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which could limit individual titles and higher resolutions – here it is important to wait for the final specifications and corresponding tests.

With the performance of the RTX 3070 at the price of the RTX 3070

At first glance, the presumed price level seems disproportionate, but not surprising at second glance. As MyDrivers claims to have found out, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is said to start for under $500. In this country, a price slightly above 500 euros would be expected – and the GeForce RTX 3070 is exactly at this level, which costs around 550 euros according to the recommended retail price and is currently not noticeably undercutting it. In this case, Ada Lovelace would not necessarily need more FPS/price, ignoring the improved ray tracing performance and DLSS 3 (test). However, since this fact also applies to the three GeForce RTX 4000 graphics cards that have already been released, as a current reader article shows, this price range does not seem unrealistic.

Since the rumors about the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti also assume a TDP of 160 watts, the graphics card would be much more efficient than the GeForce RTX 3070, which is specified with a TDP of 220 watts. It should also be noted that Ada Lovelace uses the power limit in games experience has shown that it is not exhausted anyway; especially with limited FPS. Apart from that, there are increasing indications that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in the reference design should have a particularly short PCB that can be supplied with power via a 12VHPWR connection. Nvidia is planning to convert all gaming graphics cards to the new standard in this generation.

Information should be treated with caution

< p class="p text-width">Although the rumors about the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti are becoming more and more substantial, in the end it is still by no means reliable information. Ultimately, the obligatory note follows at this point: there will only be clarity with the first tests. A market launch of the rumored GeForce RTX 4060 Ti can only be expected after the GeForce RTX 4070 in the second quarter of 2023. ComputerBase will come up with the usual detailed tests and benchmarks in due course.

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