Nvidia's RTX 4060 and 4060TI are actually priced like mid-tier cards

Nvidia appears to have come to its senses with the launch of the RTX 4060 and 4060TI on Thursday. While the company's prices for its flagship 4090 and 4080 cards, which retailed for a whopping $1,599 and $1,199, respectively, when they launched in October, the chipmaker won't charge a premium for its mid-tier graphics cards. …

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Jedi Survivor

Not that anyone is likely to care, but Jedi Survivor runs adequately on my 1060. What this means for the constant video card upgrade cycle is left as an exercise for the reader. If the 16 GB 4060 is priced reasonably, however, perhaps I will finally upgrade, which will be exciting!

[katrinab]

Re: Jedi Survivor

In other things nobody will care about, my StableDiffusion Cuda stuff runs adequately on my 3080Ti, but not at all on my 3060Ti, due to the fact that it only has 8GB of VRAM, and it seems to need more than that. 12GB is sufficient.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Jedi Survivor

@Throatwarbler If you do upgrade, I suspect you will be underwhelmed, unless you start using other software that failed to run on a 1060.

[Zebo-the-Fat]

Will it?

But....

will it run Doom??

[Teejay]

When the Xbox One X came out, everything was tailored towards 4K 30fps. Now, everything is 60fps, Unreal Engine 5, ray tracing, high CPU and GPU demands, so much is back to Full HD.

[Scotthva5]

A triumph of marketing over substance

The caveat "1.7x faster than its predecessor, when using its frame generated DLSS 3.0" is typical Nvidia marketing behavior and is apples to oranges regarding gen vs gen performance increases. Of course DLSS runs faster when turned on, that's the whole point of if it if the games support it. No mention of 3060ti vs 4060ti non-DLSS performance increase coupled with comparing it to a card 2 generations behind it makes me even more skeptical of their claims. A 10-15% actual gain is much more likely but doesn't sound as sexy in the marketing material.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: A triumph of marketing over substance

The chart include DLSS with and without frame generation, the latter being supported on the 20 and 30 series too. They also did show games that don't have frame generation support on a subsequent chart. It was a chart about DLSS.

[Dropper]

Re: A triumph of marketing over substance

Yup, most generational GFX upgrades offer little more than 10-15% on the previous. I don't own a single game that includes support for DLSS or AMD's FSR - but even if I did, the version my card supports is already out of date because I've owned my card for over a year. Tying performance gains to a technology that loses all manufacturer support within a year is just artificially propping up their numbers.

Then you have the fact that much of the assumed performance gain also assumes that the rest of your PC got upgraded with the graphics card. No point in thinking you'll see much difference in performance if your mobo's PCI express version is 2-3 years old.

[Dacarlo]

Whatever...

First things first. Exchange the dollar symbol to get UK RRP and then bung £100 mark up to get the minimum offered by the usual cabal of retailers.

RTX 2080 still going strong but I'm giving serious consideration to the other teams top card right now...

[katrinab]

Re: Whatever...

£1 = $1.24 right now. When you consider that $ prices don't include sales tax, and £ prices do, that isn't too far off. To be absolutely fair, $100 should be £96.39.

[Wade Burchette]

Still too expensive

The 4060 should be $199 and the 4060 Ti should be $249. These prices are still far too expensive.

[Anonymous Coward]

Launch prices. Hold fire another 6-12 months if you can afford to put off an upgrade.

It is most welcome to see cards in a price range I would contemplate back on the page of course. Thank you Intel, even if I were never to buy one of your cards, the price competition alone is helpful.

[Paul Smith]

I bought my 1060 in May 2017 so at six years old, it is definitely is getting a little long in the tooth but in all that time, this is the first card that I have even looked twice at as an upgrade. I am still not convinced and going fro 6G to only 8G is not going to do it for me. That said, it will have to get some pretty amazing reviews if I am going to even consider spending €400 on it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Independent benchmarks are now starting to appear. Highly amused by the gamers nexus coverage... The incremental gain over a 3060 is basically irrelevant.

My last gfx card upgrade was in this price range 3 years ago, and it (almost) outperforms the 4060. So "nope" comes to mind.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's priced like midrange, but doesn't perform like one.