NVIDIA has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB graphics card which will be launching on the 29th of June for $299 US.

NVIDIA Wants Mainstream Gamers To Pay Less & Save More With The GeForce RTX 4060 Graphics Card

Last week, NVIDIA announced that they were pushing the launch of the GeForce RTX 4060 ahead. It was originally planned to launch in July alongside theGeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB graphics card. The card will now be available as early as next week on the 29th of June and will hit retail stores as one of the most affordable Ada Lovelace offerings.

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Now, the company is sharing even more data regarding the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card, and once again, NVIDIA plans to bring the RTX and DLSS advantage to a wider audience. In one of the new slides, the company illustrates how 79% of RTX 40 gamers play their games with DLSS On, and 83% of RTX 40 gamers play their games with RT On. That means that every 8 out of 10 RTX 40 GPU owners are benefitting from Ada's latest technologies & there are 400 RTX games and applications that users can take advantage of.

However, these premium features come at a cost and during the pandemic, we saw heightened prices across all GPUs. That is why the very older GTX 16, GTX 1060, and RTX 2060 series still show up at the top of the lists at Steam Hardware Survey with 77% of the gaming base playing at 1080p or less. So NVIDIA is deciding that they want to give the mainstream gamer the value back & make them upgrade to a better GPU in the form of the RTX 4060 which also delivers a nice 20% boost vs the RTX 3060 in standard rasterization and up to a 70% boost with DLSS 3 enabled.

But another major factor discussed by NVIDIA is the power savings that come with the RTX 4060. Anyone using a GeForce RTX 4060 will reduce their power bills by a large fraction thanks to Ada's highly efficient design. This will allow users to rack up to $130+ US in savings (depending on the region) over a period of 4-years. And since most of the 60-series gamers have an upgrade cycle of 4-5 years, that would mean that they will have enough savings in their hands to cover a quarter or even up to half the cost of the next-gen mainstream purchase.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Performance

The company has already disclosed the specifications and performance numbers which show the card to offer a 20% improvement over the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB in traditional rasterization and bigger gains when RT and DLSS are factored in.

For $299 US, you are getting up to a 70% increase (with DLSS 3) and a 20% increase (without DLSS) over the RTX 3060. Now the thing about the RTX 3060 is that while it did pack a higher VRAM of 12 GB & a wider bus interface, all the memory management technologies we talked about in the RTX 4060 Ti article apply to the RTX 4060 which means it carries up to 24 MB of L2 cache which is once again, an 8x uplift over the RTX 3060.

So while the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 did pack more VRAM & a wider bus, the RTX 4060 is still faster at 1080p, & the difference that the higher L2 cache makes really shows in the 1% Low FPS where the lead over the RTX 3060 widens even more.

NVIDIA is also sharing some new performance benchmarks and power metering in games such as Dying Light 2, Returnal, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide which can be seen in the videos below:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Specifications

For the GeForce RTX 4060, NVIDIA is expected to utilize the AD107-400-A1 GPU, the fully enabled AD107 Ada die. Do note that the same configuration is used by the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU. The chip is expected to feature 3072 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 17 Gbps memory speeds across a 128-bit bus interface. That gives the card 272 GB/s bandwidth which is effectively rated at 453 GB/s or 26% more than the RTX 3060. That's all thanks to the 24 MB of L2 cache.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 should end up with a 35% lower TGP than its predecessor, the RTX 3060 12 GB. The card is said to feature a 115W TGP but actual gaming power consumption should be around 110W with idle power rated at 7W and video playback power rated at 11W. The card will be available in various custom models at launch but there will be no Founders Edition variant for it.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series Official Specs: