We know that Nvidia is developing an RTX 4060 GPU. We already have an idea about the specs. According to leaked detailed benchmarks, the answer is almost as fast as the RTX 3070 Ti (opens in new tab).

A poster on the Chinese forum Chiphell (via Hothardware (opens in new tab)) claims to have obtained an RTX 4060 board with the upcoming Nvidia AD106 GPU. The specs listed on this board are very much in line with our expectations for the RTX 4060. Let's take a look at the performance numbers.

In 3DMark Time Spy, the AD106 RTX 4060 board scored 14,111 points, exactly 2.85% faster than the GA104 GPU (also known as RTX 3070 Ti). The results include the full suite of 3DMark graphics benchmarks, which show the AD106 chip running anywhere from 10.92% slower to 2.85% faster in Time Spy.

In Time Spy, the RTX 4060 is 3.28% slower than the 3070 Ti, possibly reflecting the 4060's reported memory bandwidth of over 40% less due to its 128-bit bus versus the 3070 Ti's 256-bit bus.

The RTX 4060 offers 8 times the L2 cache memory of the 3070 Ti and is also said to have a 40% higher boost clock, so even though the RTX 4060 has 4,608 CUDA cores compared to the RTX 3070 Ti's 6,144 CUDA cores, it makes up for the performance deficit!

Also, the RTX 4060 has a higher performance than the RTX 4060.

The RTX 4060 is also said to do all of this while consuming about 25% less power. The benchmark also includes the TU104 chip from the two previous RTX 2080 generations (open in new tab). In various 3DMark tests, the 4060 is 16% to 45% faster than the RTX 2080.

The RTX 2080 was released over four years ago, so it is debatable how impressive the improvement is, even from a '60 series GPU that is ostensibly a few steps down the product stack.

Incidentally, the benchmarks also include a number of synthetic tests of pure processing and memory performance.

The broad gist, however, is that one can expect a gaming experience roughly equivalent to the RTX 3070 Ti, with the added benefit of DLSS 3 with its frame generation capabilities. How this translates into a value proposition will, of course, depend on how high Nvidia will price the RTX 4060. Attention.