NVIDIA has a major release coming up and one of them is GeForce RTX 4060 Tia graphics card that will replace the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and that will occupy a key position in the market, because it will fill the gap between the top of the mid-range and the base of the high-end.

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti was an excellent value graphics card at launch, offering a performance is better than GeForce RTX 2080 Super and it cost only 419 euros. It fit perfectly in this price category and was in a very interesting position against the GeForce RTX 3070 and also compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT.

We still don’t have official information from NVIDIA, but we are clear about some things. We know that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will hit the market in the first quarter of 2023probably between February and March, and we also know its possible specifications thanks to a recent leak that, to be honest, left me with some doubts.

I have analyzed these specifications and put all my knowledge on the table to give you the most realistic and accurate interpretation possible what can we expect from the mentioned graphics card if this information is true. First, we’ll look at those supposed specs, and then I’ll give you my interpretation.

Possible specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

• Graphics core AD106 in 5nm.
• 4352 shaders at 2190MHz-2430MHz, normal and turbo mod.
• 128 texturing units.
• 128 tensor cores of the fourth generation.
• 64 raster units.
• 32 cores 3rd generation RT.
• 128-bit bus.
• 8 GB GDDR6 at 18 GHz (288 GB/s bandwidth).
• 21.15 TFLOPs of performance in FP32.
• TGP 220W.

The first thing that comes to my mind is that these specifications would fit more like a GeForce RTX 4060, because we see fewer shaders than on the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (adds 4,864 shaders). We also have fewer texturing units, tensor and RT kernels, and raster units.

memory bus was reduced from 256 bits to 128 bitsand despite the increased memory frequency, the bandwidth drops from the 448 GB/s of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti to the 288 GB/s that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti should have. For everything I said, the truth is this It’s a little hard to believe that it will be the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti specs, because at the time I also found it hard to believe that the GeForce RTX 4070 would only have 5,888 shaders.

In each case, We will assume that this information is correct. And that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will arrive with this configuration, does that mean it will be slower than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti due to fewer shaders and a lower bus? Not necessarilybecause it will use a new architecture that offers excellent performance, it will work at higher operating frequencies and it will play with three big advantages:

• Tensor cores and more powerful RT cores.
• DLSS 3 support and frame generation.
• Shader level optimization and ray tracing exclusive to Ada Lovelace.

In terms of performance, if these specs are confirmed, I think GeForce RTX 4060 Ti it would be slightly higher than the GeForce RTX 3070 in raw performance and significantly outperform it in ray tracing. It goes without saying that DLSS 3 would make a big difference in compatible games. I don’t have details on the price, but seeing the schematics NVIDIA used for the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, it’s likely that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will be around 600-700 euros.