DLSS 3.0 MAKES THIS CARD

Fortunately, the GeForce RTX 4060 stays true to the cost bracket of its predecessors, sticking to the familiar US$299.

MSI Ventus 2X Black GeForce RTX 4060

@ A GLANCE

• GPU Ada Lovelace (AD106)
• CORES 3,072 CUDA, 96 Tensor, 24 RT
• MEMORY 8GB GDDR6
• CLOCKS 1,830 MHz (Base), 2,475 (Boost)
• TDP 115W
• PRICE US$299

Affordability seems to be PC gamers’ favoured attribute, as suggested by the Steam Hardware Survey, which indicates cards like NVIDIA’s entry-level GeForce RTX 2060 as the most popular. Yet, both NVIDIA and AMD are only gingerly acknowledging this vast majority of gamers. A case in point is the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with its rather lofty US$399 price tag. Fortunately, the GeForce RTX 4060 stays true to the cost bracket of its predecessors, sticking to the familiar US$299. This is certainly good news for potential upgraders from the RTX 2060 and even those hanging on to the GeForce GTX 1060. As there’s no Founders Edition of the RTX 4060, NVIDIA sent the MSI Ventus 2X Black GeForce RTX 4060.

Here is the thing: Just on rasterization-based performances alone, the RTX 4060 might not be that enticing if you already have a last-generation graphics card like the GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT.

However, it leaps forward when DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation are enabled, a capability that the RTX 3060 Ti and Radeon RX 6600 XT do not have. Frame Generation is an innovation NVIDIA baked into its RTX 40 series cards, designed to boost frame rates in a novel way, independently of the CPU.