Sales start June 29
Nvidia decided to remind you that the $300 GeForce RTX 4060 will go on sale on June 29th. True, prices for some options in Europe can reach 500 euros , but this has nothing to do with Nvidia itself.
Nvidia once again emphasizes that the RTX 4060 will be a great solution for gaming at 1080p.
According to the Steam database as of May 2023, 9 of the 10 most used GPUs on Steam are class 60 or lower (meaning GeForce x060), and 77% of Steam gamers play at 1080p or lower. For these gamers, the new GeForce RTX 4060 is a great upgrade, allowing you to play newer, more demanding games at 1080p with great levels of fidelity. For gamers who upgrade from the GeForce RTX 2060, performance increases by an average of 2.3 times in a set of 18 games, and GeForce GTX 1060 users, in addition to higher frame rates, also get ray tracing and DLSS acceleration for the first time.
Nvidia touts the GeForce RTX 4060, noting that compared to the RTX 3060
Nvidia also states that the RTX 4060 is on average 20% faster than the RTX 3060 and 60% faster than the RTX 2060 when not using frame generation technology in DLSS 3. At the same time, DLSS itself was active in games that support it, and we know that DLSS 3 provides a greater performance boost than DLSS 2.
If you look at the same chart that Nvidia provided back at the time of the announcement of the RTX 4060, you can see that in games without frame generation (DLSS is still active in some of them), the increase can be even less than 10%. For example, in The Last of Us Part I, the offhand figure is about 6%.
Separately, Nvidia focuses on the low power consumption of the new card. Recall that its TDP is only 110 watts, and the company’s calculations indicate that, compared to the same RTX 3060, a new 3D card will save about $30-55 in the US over four years, or about $65-130 in Europe.
