There’s seven pages here of RTX 4060 Ti analysis and data in this review, but the more I used the card, the more I realised that this is massive overkill for a GPU where the salient points can be summed up in one paragraph. The RTX 4060 Ti is essentially a hybrid RTX 3060 Ti/RTX 3070 with the added bonus of DLSS 3, a good media block and extra efficiency, but beyond that it’s a missed opportunity and a disappointment. There are some positive points to highlight, but they’re crushed by the sense that Nvidia isn’t delivering good value to the sector of the market that most demands it.
And this is actually a shame, because there positive points to discuss. While gen-on-gen gains up against the RTX 3060 Ti are variable and VRAM allocation is an issue, the advantages of the Ada Lovelace architecture can still shine through. DLSS 3 frame generation’s ability to overcome CPU limitations has palpable worth in the mainstream, as you’ll see later on.
Perhaps more impressively, Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive – a massive statement about the future of games – doesn’t just run well on the RTX 4060 Ti at 1080p, I actually found that via the RT optimisation mod we discussed in the past, it actually runs slightly faster than RTX 4070 in an unmodded state at 1440p in DLSS balanced mode. A path-traced Cyberpunk 2077 running with better image quality and faster frame-rates than the Series X and PS5 versions in their performance modes is quite the thing to see and it’s all coming from a $400 GPU. [UPDATE: Having put some time into this now, certain areas of the game see performance come crashing down at 1440p with frame-gen active and the solution is to use 1080p at DLSS quality mode instead to stop this happening – my feeling is that we hit memory limits with frame-gen and higher resolution working in concert.]
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| Resolution: 1440p | Lowest 1% | Mean average |
|---|---|---|
| RTX 4070 Ti FG | 72.14 | 97.40 |
| RTX 4070 Ti | 46.81 | 58.78 |
| RTX 4070 FG | 57.11 | 76.24 |
| RTX 4070 | 36.36 | 45.66 |
| RTX 4060 Ti FG | 40.97 | 58.94 |
| RTX 4060 Ti | 30.00 | 39.91 |
| RTX 3080 | 35.07 | 44.27 |
| RTX 3070 | 24.75 | 32.73 |
| RX 7900 XTX | 19.11 | 26.12 |
| RTX 2080 Ti | 19.79 | 24.65 |
| RX 7900 XT | 16.30 | 22.56 |
| RTX 3060 | 16.31 | 20.54 |
| RTX 2080 | 12.91 | 18.53 |
| RX 6900 XT | 11.50 | 16.01 |
| RTX 3050 | 10.23 | 14.06 |
| RX 6800 XT | 9.71 | 13.27 |
But elsewhere, it’s very difficult to get excited about what Nvidia has delivered here – and the sense of a lack of momentum the lower down the stack we go is difficult to shake. Consider this: at the top of the range, RTX 4090 delivered features and performance we’d never seen before at around the same price as its predecessor. RTX 4080? Another superb GPU, but saddled with a price-point at least $300 higher than it should have been. RTX 4070 and and RTX 4070 Ti? These made sense from a strategic standpoint by delivering performance equivalent or better than RTX 3080, but in each case, the products were backed with DLSS 3 and more memory.