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

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

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The RTX 4060 Ti isn't really designed for 4K gaming, unless you're only playing lighter esports fare. It's still fast enough to break 30 fps in a lot of games, but the limited VRAM and memory interface are definitely a concern. Less demanding games may run perfectly fine, but our demanding test suite will put the hurt on modest GPUs.

We're including these results just to give you an idea of how the 4060 Ti manages with 4K gaming, but we're not going to say much else. We didn't test every card at 4K, for what should hopefully be obvious reasons. Anyway, enjoy the charts!

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti gaming performance charts
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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.

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205 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.
    Reply
  • 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? 🤔
    Reply
  • 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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