Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Review: 1080p Gaming for $399

Memory capacity and bus width can hamstring performance at higher resolutions.

By Jarred Walton
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Stepping up to 1440p causes some issues at times with the RTX 4060 Ti. Part of that is the 8GB of VRAM, but just as critical is the 32MB L2 cache and 128-bit memory interface. Those are generally sufficient for 1080p but start to hinder performance at higher resolutions, as we'll see here.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts

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The RTX 4060 Ti was slightly faster overall compared to the RTX 3070 at 1080p, but now it trails slightly. The RX 6800 also pulls ahead, and the lead over the 3060 Ti shrinks to just over 10%.

The good news is that the RTX 4060 Ti can still handle 1440p gaming, especially if the games you want play support DLSS. The overall average of 57 fps may fall below the 'magical' 60 fps mark, but eight of the games still exceed 60 fps. As you might expect, none of those eight are heavy ray tracing games.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts
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Rasterization performance is pretty good, at least if you're just looking at the fps rather than the competition. With 75 fps in aggregate and only one game (A Plague Tale: Requiem) failing to break 60 fps, 1440p will definitely be playable for a lot of games.

The gap between the 4060 Ti and 3060 Ti remains about 10% overall, but that's enough to give Nvidia a clear lead over the 6700 XT. We don't have full results for the 6750 XT, but it's typically only about 5% faster than the earlier card, meaning Nvidia should still maintain a slight lead there as well.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts
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Ray tracing at 1440p without upscaling will be a bit too demanding for many games. Control and Metro Exodus Enhanced are right around the 30 fps minimum for what we would deem "playable," while Spider-Man: Miles Morales manages 40 fps. The other three ray tracing games on the other hand deliver 20 fps or less and aren't really a good experience without higher upscaling ratios.

The 4060 Ti still leads AMD's RX 6700 XT by a sizeable margin for ray tracing — by 54% overall. A big part of that is Minecraft, where Nvidia is over twice as fast, but the closest result for AMD is in Spider-Man, and Nvidia still has a 17% lead there. If you want a faster solution from AMD for ray tracing games, you'd still need an RX 6800 XT to match the 4060 Ti at 1440p ultra.

Jarred Walton
Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

191 Comments Comment from the forums
  • lmcnabney
    3.5 stars for what is a fairly negative review.

    Who is the target for this product? A console will perform better for the same money and eliminate the cost of the rest of the computer.
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  • HKTacticblade
    RX 6800 16GB from previous gen is already better.
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  • DSzymborski
    lmcnabney said:
    3.5 stars for what is a fairly negative review.

    Who is the target for this product? A console will perform better for the same money and eliminate the cost of the rest of the computer.

    Presumably people who want a computer that can do the stuff a console can and still do the other things that a console doesn't do all that well.
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  • bourgeoisdude
    HKTacticblade said:
    RX 6800 16GB from previous gen is already better.
    It also costs more :)

    Seriously though, I keep waiting for a card around this price point to upgrade to, as I have the 1070 ti, but I keep getting disappointed. I am considering AMD as a protest to what I consider the NVIDIA name tax, but frankly I am skeptical that they will do much better with their 7600 (XT) or 7700 (XT). I play enough older games that I also lean away from Intel. I guess I'm just hanging on to Pascal for a bit longer.
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  • J_E_D_70
    WTH is going on. The $500 2070 Super 8GB from four (!!!) years ago crushes 1080p and is highly competent at 1440p. Two generations later a 4060ti should be equivalent to what... a 2080 or higher? Guess they really have hit a wall.
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  • dk382
    FYI, the professional/content creation portion of the review is for the 4070. Looks like you forgot to replace it with the 4060 Ti's data in the template.
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  • evdjj3j
    lmcnabney said:
    3.5 stars for what is a fairly negative review.

    Who is the target for this product? A console will perform better for the same money and eliminate the cost of the rest of the computer.
    I came here to say the same thing.

    "RTX 4060 Ti comes in just ahead of the RTX 3070 at 1080p, but falls behind the RTX 3060 Ti at 1440p and 4K."

    "Being faster than the RTX 3070 is at least something, but the lead is very slim, and the RTX 3060 Ti isn't far behind either. Gen on gen, we're looking at native performance that's only 13% faster with the RTX 4060 Ti."

    That's not 3 1/2 starts worthy.

    I'm getting the impression that Tom's doesn't want to bite the had that feeds it.
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  • peachpuff
    lmcnabney said:
    3.5 stars for what is a fairly negative review.
    Maybe it's out of 10 stars? 🤔
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  • bit_user
    dk382 said:
    FYI, the professional/content creation portion of the review is for the 4070. Looks like you forgot to replace it with the 4060 Ti's data in the template.
    I also noticed that, but the article text explains it:
    Note: We're still retesting some of the cards and so the ProViz and AI results aren't quite ready yet. Check back later today... the charts and text below are placeholders from the RTX 4070 launch.
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  • btmedic04
    So more or less 3070 performance for $100 less now, or 3070 performance with double the vram for the same launch price as the 3070 next month. Yeah no thanks. Insane that nvidia thinks they can charge essentially the same price on 3 year old performance
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