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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.
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.
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.
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.
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