Preliminary GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Specs Leak: 220W and a Brief PCB

Preliminary specs of Nvidia’s efficiency mainstream GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card point out that the board will not be as energy hungry as the corporate’s high-end choices, with a brief PCB that can match properly into compact PCs. In the meantime, despite the fact that this product is prone to be part of the ranks of the greatest graphics playing cards, its efficiency and specs could also be decrease than some may want.

{Hardware} leaker @Kopite7Kimi late on Tuesday stated that that Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will likely be based mostly on the AD106 graphics processor with 4352 CUDA cores that will likely be paired with 8GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 reminiscence utilizing a 128-bit interface. The product will devour round 220W — not loads by in the present day’s requirements — and the reference card is alleged to make use of a “very brief” printed circuit board, which is able to make it simpler to put in into compact PCs.

In the meantime, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Founders Version will proceed to make use of the infamous 12VHPWR energy connector. Why does a 220W half even want a 16-pin connector with the potential to ship 600W? We’ll depart that for the readers to debate.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-Collection Specs

Nvidia has not confirmed and of the specs for its upcoming merchandise but, so take them with a grain of salt. In the meantime, based mostly on preliminary specs of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 revealed final week, it seems to be just like the hole between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070 will likely be fairly important. Assuming roughly comparable clocks, we’re speaking about no less than 26% much less compute efficiency from the 4060 Ti, which is substantial.

Contemplating the enhancements of the Ada Lovelace structure over the Ampere structure, in addition to larger clocks enabled by TSMC’s 4N fabrication know-how, we could anticipate the AD106 GPU and the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti board to function considerably extra compute horsepower than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Nevertheless, its reminiscence bandwidth of 288 GB/s will likely be a whopping 41% decrease in comparison with its predecessor. The 32MB L2 cache ought to assist to mitigate the distinction, however the query is whether or not it should get rid of circumstances when the brand new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will lag behind the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in excessive resolutions and/or with antialiasing enabled.

Maybe worse, even the vanilla GeForce RTX 3060 carries 4GB extra reminiscence than the upcoming GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which is a bit odd. Given the 128-bit reminiscence bus and a comparatively small variety of CUDA cores, we presume Nvidia designed its AD106 primarily with laptops in thoughts. Regardless, we already felt the 8GB of VRAM on the 3060 Ti, 3070, and 3070 Ti was changing into a limiting issue, and that was two years in the past. A mainstream efficiency card launching in 2023 and nonetheless utilizing 8GB of reminiscence feels virtually insulting to gaming fans.

Utilizing AD106 for a GeForce RTX x060 Ti half will in fact enable the corporate to extend its income, however from a gamer’s viewpoint, what issues is efficiency and talent to play video games upcoming video games. We anticipate the 4060 Ti will simply surpass the prevailing 3060 Ti, because of its considerably larger clocks, however we’ll must see the way it stands as much as different GPUs as soon as it launches.

In fact that is all unofficial and preliminary data that might not be correct or remaining. Nvidia could change its plans because it will get nearer to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launch, or the specs is likely to be for a laptop computer variant. However for now, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti seems to be slightly pale and will solely match the prevailing RTX 3070 Ti.