At the company, NVIDIA presented its new GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, two graphics cards with which the green giant covers the medium and medium-high range, respectively. all improvements introduced by Ada Lovelace Architecture at the level of performance, efficiency, ray tracing and artificial intelligence applied to gaming. In this sense, the support of Fr DLSS 3 (frame generation).

The GeForce RTX 4060 It is designed to be played optimally 1080p resolution, and it is shaping up to be a very interesting renovation aimed at the general public both in terms of price and benefits. In this regard, it is important to note that according to data from the classic Steam hardware and software survey, 77% of users play at 1080p, and four of the five most popular GPUs on the platform are from the NVIDIA 60 series. .

NVIDIA has not confirmed the full specifications of the GeForce RTX 4060, but as you can see in the attached image, we have a lot of information in this regard. Said graphics card will have a performance of 15 TFLOPs in FP32, 35 TFLOPs in ray tracing and 242 TFLOPs at the AI ​​level. Compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 we see a modest jump in FP32, but a very big advance in ray tracing and AI.

With GeForce RTX 4060 we will have AV1 support with 8th generation NV encoderwe will enjoy the value that DLSS 3 represents both in games and in professional applications and tools, and we will have 8 GB of graphics memory, which is enough to get an absolutely optimal gaming experience at 1080p with maximum quality or at 1440p adjusted for quality. memory consumption and requirements of each title.

GeForce RTX 4060 is more powerful and advanced than the GeForce RTX 3060, but it’s also much more efficient. Look at the consumption figures, the former registers an average of only 110 watts, which means that it could work without problems with a single additional 6-pin power connector, while the latter has an average consumption of 170 watts. The difference in efficiency is hugeeven without bringing DLSS 3 into the equation.

The new larger L2 cache: everything you need to know

The memory bus that this graphics card will have will be 128-bit, which leaves us with a bandwidth of 272 GB/s. To compensate for this reduction in bandwidth NVIDIA increased the L2 cache to 24 MB, that means we have 700% more L2 cache compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 and achieves a bandwidth of 453 GB/s.

L2 cache in Ampere.

In the case of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, we also have a 128-bit bus and a bandwidth of 288 GB/s, but it has a 32 MB L2 cache that increases the bandwidth up to 556 GB/s. In total we have 8 times more L2 cache than in the previous generation.

Cache plays a very important role. In this case, we are talking about L2 cache, a type of memory that is faster than L3 cache and that is located closer to the GPU, which significantly reduces latency. With this cache, the maximum bandwidth achieved by the GeForce RTX 4060 and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is significantly increased by increasing the total available amount that NVIDIA has achieved. improve performance despite using a smaller memory bus.

When the GPU needs it find dates or instructions to complete their work cycles it first resorts to the L2 cache. That’s why he does it is what’s closest to you (lower latency) and what you can communicate with faster. This will generate a data request that can be resolved by hit or fail depending on whether what you need is in the cache. If a hit is found and the specified call is terminated, if not, a call to graphics memory is made.

L2 cache on Ada Lovelace. A larger amount means a higher number of accesses and reduces graphics memory calls.

If we have very small L2 cache the amount of data and instructions we can store in it will be very limited, which will mean that eventually we have higher failure rate in these data requirements and that memory bus and graphics memory dependency is increasing.

Here it is more clearly shown how the graphics memory requirements are reduced due to the larger L2 cache.

With Ada Lovelace, NVIDIA has significantly increased the amount of available L2 cache and due to this, the access rate is higher and the dependence on the data bus is reduced and graphics memory. Therefore, it was possible to reduce the buses to 128 bits without sacrificing performance.

GeForce RTX 4060 specs and performance

This new graphics card is 20% more powerful than GeForce RTX 3060 a consumes almost 36% less. If we consider DLSS 3, the improvement in favor of GeForce RTX 4060 is 70%, and it obviously has no effect on consumption. Compared to the GeForce RTX 2060, the difference is even bigger, because we’re kidding 60% improvement without DLSS 3 and 230% with this technology enabled.

In the attached graphs we can see the performance data perfectly broken down, including FPS averages and minimums (1% low). However, the improvement we get with the GeForce RTX 4060 is impressive in many cases Microsoft Flight Simulator stands out without a doubt, where we have a minimum gain of more than 60 FPS and almost double the average FPS speed, as we went from less than 80 FPS with the GeForce RTX 3060 to more than 160 FPS with the GeForce RTX 4060 thanks to DLSS 3 .

Remember that the minimum FPS rate is important because it affects the actual fluidity that we notice when starting the game. If the minimum rate is very low we notice stuttering (image stuttering) very noticeable and the experience will not be good even if the average is well above 60 frames per second.

GeForce RTX 4060 Specs (Estimated)

• Graphics core AD107 in 5nm.
• 3072 shaders at 2.5 GHz.
• 96 texturing units.
• 32 raster units.
• 96 tensor cores of the fourth generation.
• 24 cores of the third generation RT.
• 128-bit memory bus.
• 8 GB GDDR6 with 272 GB/s bandwidth.
• 15 TFLOPs of performance in FP32.
• 24 MB L2 cache (453 GB/s effective).
• 115 watt TGP, average consumption 110 watts.

Price and release date

The GeForce RTX 4060 will arrive in July. His price will be 335 eurosIncluding VAT. Prices in dollars do not include taxes, always keep this in mind when comparing dollar and euro equivalents.

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti specs and performance

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti represents a clear leap over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, both in gross performance and consumption. As we can see in the attached table, the novelty from NVIDIA has a performance of 22 TFLOPs in FP32, 51 TFLOPs in ray tracing and 353 TFLOPs in AI, while the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has 16 TFLOPs, 32 TFLOPs and 130 TFLOPs. .

This new graphics card opens the door to all the improvements introduced by Ada Lovelace and also represents a remarkable evolution in terms of efficiency as it renders up to 15% more than GeForce RTX 3060 Ti without DLSS 3 and up to 70% more with DLSS 3. At the consumer level, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti registers an average 140 wattswhile the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti consumes 197 watts.

The two attached graphs show us the comparative performance offered by the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in both the 8GB and 16GB versions, and it is clear that with 2 we will enjoy better performance in some titles and we will also be able to activate higher graphics quality settings. It can be a good investment for the future, that’s for sure, and it’s also shaping up to be a more interesting option for those who want to use it for play and work.

Compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, we see that thanks to DLSS 3, GeForce RTX 4060 Ti can double FPS for some titles, Like Microsoft Flight Simulator. Without this technology, the improvement is more modest, but the leap that NVIDIA has made with this new graphics card is clearly appreciated in terms of efficiency it is excellent.

GeForce RTX 4006 Ti Specifications (estimated)

• Graphics core AD106 in 5nm.
• 4352 shaders at 2310MHz-2535MHz, normal and turbo mode.
• 128 texturing units.
• 128 tensor cores of the fourth generation.
• 64 raster units.
• 32 cores 3rd generation RT.
• 128-bit bus.
• 8GB-16GB 18GHz GDDR6 (bandwidth 288GB/s).
• 22 TFLOPs of performance in the FP32.
• 32 MB L2 cache (effective 554 GB/s).
• 160 watt TGP, average consumption 140 watts.

Price and release date

The 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will hit the market on May 24 with a price 449 euros, and the 16GB version will be available from July for a price 559 euros, Including VAT. As I told you before dollar prices do not include tax.