Summary
I wrote enough about the GeForce RTX 4060 yesterday, I don’t have to repeat everything again. Therefore, I will now limit myself to the MSI RTX 4060 Gaming X, which, as an OC card, is a significant step forward compared to the two MSRP cards I have. Sometimes I had the feeling that it was a completely different card. Visually, haptically, and especially in handling and benchmark results, The card consumes only marginally more electrical power than the MSRP cards, but is significantly faster. That alone speaks for the OC card and against the butter-and-bread models.
The overclocking capability enhances the card immensely, especially since it remains pleasantly quiet despite maximum overclocking and moderately raised power limit. This plus point has been well earned, even if the MSRP, which I unfortunately don’t know yet, should be significantly higher than the 329 Euro entry price. However, since I am sure that the overall positioning of the GeForce RTX 4060 is unlikely to be maintained in terms of price, I can only advise anyone interested to exercise some patience.
And my somewhat harsher criticism is once again directed at NVIDIA, which is not MSI’s fault for the time being. The fact that a current card does such telemetry capers at idle (for whatever reason) is completely beyond my understanding. Especially since the unnecessary omission of the exact input measurement with shunts and clean monitoring leads to the cards consuming much more power under load than they should. It’s even more surprising that all programs get much too low values via NVAPI, which have nothing to do with the actual power consumption, but interestingly correspond to the values of the own marketing. Intention or inability? We’ll probably never know.
Because the efficiency observations also show us vividly that the GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB as MSRP card clearly falls behind today’s tested card with hard OC. Of course, this is also due to the better-binned chip itself, but also the boards and the technical implementation of the voltage converters. Everything that has already been converted into heat on the way to the end user is then missing from the GPU later on. A more lovingly designed OC card, such as the one from MSI, is simply that decisive bit better in terms of efficiency, even though it was overclocked properly.
And in general? The GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB, regardless of whether it has OC or not, is a card for Full HD when it comes to higher frame rates, and it is also suitable for WQHD to a certain extent. But then you will have to think about smart upscaling because it gets a bit tight in QHD without DLSS. NVIDIA can definitely use its advantages here, which DLSS 2.x also offers optically. However, if a game supports DLSS 3.0 and you would be stuck in the unplayable FPS range without Super Sampling, then this can even be the ultimate lifeline for playability. You can’t improve the latencies with this (they stay the same), but not every genre is as latency-bound as various shooters.
Thus, you get all the advantages of the Ada architecture even in the entry-level model, but as a customer you will certainly suffer a bit from the outdated memory expansion and the narrow memory interface for everything in the future. However, MSI is not responsible for that, but NVIDIA alone. If I had to buy an RTX 4060, I would definitely not buy an MSRP card, because the compromises would simply not be acceptable to me. So if I did, then at least one of the better OC cards, like this MSI RTX 4060 Gaming X 8GB. However, I wouldn’t be really happy either because of the current prices. So first wait and watch the market. It can only get better (and cheaper)!
The graphics card was provided by MSI for this test. The only condition was the compliance with the lock period, no influence or compensation took place.
- 1 - Einführung, technische Daten und Technologie
- 2 - Test System im igor'sLAB MIFCOM-PC
- 3 - Teardown: PCB und Komponenten
- 4 - Gaming Performance FHD (1920 x 1080)
- 5 - Gaming-Performance WQHD (2560 x 1440)
- 6 - Gaming Performance DLSS vs. DLSS3 vs. FSR
- 7 - Lastspitzen, Kappung und Netzteilempfehlung
- 8 - Temperaturen, Taktraten, Lüfter und Geräuschentwicklung
- 9 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit
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