Update: Nvidia has officially confirmed a revised release date for the GeForce RTX 4060: June 29 at 6 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Original article Nvidia has reportedly decided to move up the RTX 4060 release date. The most affordable RTX 40 family to date was originally scheduled to launch in July, but new leaked information indicates that the release date has been moved up to June.

According to a reputable leaker with the interesting name MEGAsizeGPU (via Videocardz), the RTX 4060 will be released on June 29, with the first reviews posted a day before that. The leak references what appears to be an internal Nvidia document. According to the report, Nvidia is shipping RTX 4060 products to the channel as of June 12.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is expected to be based on a cut-down version of the same AD106 GPU as the one in the RTX 4060 Ti. Nvidia has said that the card will have 3072 CUDA cores, a boost clock of 2460 MHz, 128 bit bus, and 8GB of GDDR6 memory via the bit bus.

The 4060's 3072 CUDA cores are significantly less than the 4060 Ti's 4352. This indicates a significant performance difference between the two models. However, the TDP is set much lower at 115W for the RTX 4060 compared to the RTX 4060 Ti's 160W; even if the RTX 4060 will be considerably slower than the Ti, at least the power efficiency and performance per watt should be quite impressive.

The earlier release is not that surprising. The faster RTX 4060 Ti is not a bad card, but the $399 price tag is too high to win the hearts and minds of long-suffering mainstream gamers, and a major factor in Nvidia's decision to bring the non-TI RTX 4060 forward is that the card has received lukewarm reviews and sales has been slow.

Starting at $299, the RTX 4060 8GB will no doubt appeal to a larger market; Nvidia's xx60-class cards are always popular, but of course it depends on their performance relative to competing products. Of course, it depends on performance relative to competing products.

The RTX 4060 will face competition not only from AMD's Radeon RX 7600, but also from previous generation cards from both companies; the RTX 30 and RX 6000 series cards are cheaper as they approach the end of their useful life and remain high-performance gaming cards.

We look forward to seeing how the RTX 4060 stacks up; PC Gamer will be posting a review of the RTX 4060 cards, and we'll be sure to keep an eye out for the RTX 4060 cards in the coming months!