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| Screencap of official website announcing the new cards. |
SOURCE: Nvidia's official reveal page for the 4060 and 4060TI written by Andrew Burnes. (see official site for more details)
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4000 series hasn't been having a great time. Prices criticized for being too high, burning connection cables, and VRAM shenanigans. The new series RTX GPU has difficulty to gain appeal. Woes aside, Nvidia takes to their official website and announces not only 4060TI but the 4060. The 4060TI 8GB model releasing on the 24th of May, 4060TI 16GB and 4060 model releasing in July. It seems patience might be a virtue for those going for the cheap intentional 1080P tier GPU lineup. The reception seems to be mixed. Question being: How well might the 4060 and 4060TI do?
How much are we paying?
Starting from the cheapest to the priciest: 4060 for $299, 4060TI 8GB for $399, 4060TI 16GB for $499. As reasonably priced as we can expect to be given the whole pricing situation with Nvidia.
Where are the improvements?
For 4060TI, we see not only a 8GB model but a 16GB one. The 4060 will stay at 8GB. For once, it makes sense. We saw not only a 8GB 3060 but an 12GB 3060 but not a VRAM increased model for 3060TI - 3070TI. Seems weird but okay. The power draw seems to have surprisingly break records for consumption. Talking about 115W TGP for 4060 and 160W TGP for the 4060TI. Seems to be more power consumption friendly. However memory bandwidth for 4060TI seems to be at 288 GB/s but it is apparently 32MB L2 which being implied by Nvidia, to total up in a nutshell. Seeming to be the same case for 4060's 24MB L2 272GB/s bandwidth. Of course we see an increase in Shaders, RT cores, and Tensor cores. Of course, the 4060 and 4060TI cards will have AV1 support and also, DLSS3. Seems to be a solid (but a bit in some areas slight) improvement.
Seems to be a caveat.
People who will go for the 4060TI will not at most, go for the 8GB VRAM model coming this month. They will be patient for July. That is when the 16GB model becomes appealing when it comes out. 4060 and 4060TI 8GB might be more ideal for budget friendly dual PC capture/streaming and video editing rigs. ITX enthusiast builds seems to be treated dirty but ITX cases seems to change in design to ensure the ability to fit in even a 4070 dual fan or even, a 4070TI. To have the GPU size shrink for 4060 for ITX PC (article @ VideoCardz by WhyCry) seems to be mostly pointless now unless someone is wanting to make their own budget friendly alternative to Mac Mini M2. VRAM concerns will at most, steer builders clear from 4060 and 4060TI 8GB.
Will they do well?
Time will only tell, we are talking about $100+ MSRP increases across the board. We see improvements. However, if even the 4060TI 16GB does bad as the other 40 series cards, this might be not the pleasant generation of GPUs. People new to PC Building might consider the 40 series unless too desperate. However, it won't take long until AMD comes out with more of their RX7000 cards which has been a threat to RTX 40 series. Nvidia might want be careful. However, Nvidia's RTX 40 GPUs will probably not do well all together. If the RTX 50 series cards get revealed (probably next year or two), it will definitely improve over the previous and probably be more worth it to get a new GPU or build a new rig (that is if Nvidia gets it together and improves). There could be a situation that will bound people to their homes and it will force people to get ahold of RTX 40 cards because reasons, we might see an improvement. However, time will only tell for the RTX 4060 and 4060TI cards...
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