NVIDIA has major releases ahead, and one of them is the GeForce RTX 4060 Tia graphics card that will succeed the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and that will occupy a key position in the market, as 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 superior to that of a GeForce RTX 2080 Super and it cost only 419 euros. It was a perfect fit for that price point, and it was in a very interesting position against the GeForce RTX 3070, and also compared to the Radeon RX 6700 XT.
We still do not 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, has left me with some doubts.
I have analyzed these specifications and I have put all my knowledge on the table to give you the most realistic and accurate interpretation possible of what we can expect from said graphics card if this information is true. First of all, we are going to see those supposed specifications, and then I will tell you my interpretation.
Possible specifications of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
- AD106 graphics core in 5nm.
- 4,352 shaders at 2,190 MHz-2,430 MHz, normal and turbo mod.
- 128 texturing units.
- 128 fourth generation tensor cores.
- 64 raster units.
- 32 3rd generation RT cores.
- 128-bit bus.
- 8 GB of GDDR6 at 18 GHz (288 GB/s bandwidth).
- 21.15 TFLOPs of power in FP32.
- 220 watt TGP.
The first thing that strikes me is that these specifications would fit more like those of the GeForce RTX 4060, since we see a smaller amount of shaders than on the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (adds 4,864 shaders). We also have fewer texturing units, tensor and RT cores, and raster units.
memory bus has been reduced from 256 bits to 128 bits, and despite the increase in 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 would have. For all that I have said the truth is that I have a little hard to believe that these are going to be the specifications of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, as it was also hard for me at the time to believe that the GeForce RTX 4070 is only going to have 5,888 shaders.
In any case, We will assume that this information is correct. And that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is going to arrive with that configuration, does that mean that it will be slower than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti due to fewer shaders and a lower bus? Not necessarilysince it is going to use a new architecture that offers superior performance, it is going to work at higher working frequencies and it is going to play with three great advantages:
- Tensor cores and more powerful RT cores.
- DLSS 3 support and frame generation.
- Optimizations at the level of shaders and ray tracing exclusive to Ada Lovelace.
As far as performance is concerned, if these specs are confirmed I think the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti it would be somewhat above the GeForce RTX 3070 in raw performance, and it would vastly surpass it in ray tracing. It goes without saying that DLSS 3 would make a significant difference in its favor in compatible games. I do not have details about the price, but seeing the scheme that NVIDIA has followed with the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080, it is likely that the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will be around 600-700 euro.
