The fifth card in the Ada Lovelace range, the GeForce RTX 4060 is due for release on June 29, starting at 329 euros.
PC gaming is expensive. As everyone will tell you, not everyone can afford a machine powerful enough to run the latest games in comfortable conditions. Processor, RAM, storage space - every component can quickly become expensive, but it's the graphics card that takes the cake in a way, and for many enthusiasts, it's absolutely impossible to turn to the models launched in autumn/winter 2022-23 by AMD or NVIDIA. At NVIDIA, the new range is called Ada Lovelace, and the cards are better known under the GeForce RTX 4000 name. The first models (RTX 4090, RTX 4080 or RTX 4070 Ti) are still selling for over 1,000 euros. For many gamers, the solution lies in more affordable, less high-end models, such as the GeForce RTX 4070 or RTX 4060 Ti.
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Having said that, it's the youngest model that should once again make up the bulk of sales: as we said, the GeForce RTX 4060 is due for release on June 29, with a target price set by NVIDIA at 329 euros. It's a safe bet that other manufacturers will be launching more expensive models, but just over 300 euros is already quite an investment. Fortunately, if the first leaks are anything to go by, the investment should be well worth it, especially if we compare the newcomer to the GTX 1000 and RTX 2000 generation cards. For the time being, and pending the publication of press tests, we're talking about two main leaks. The first (pictured above) concerns the Geekbench 6 measurement software database. The Videocardz site has found entries concerning the GeForce RTX 4060, which is compared with its main competitor (the Radeon RX 7600), its big sister (the RTX 4060 Ti) and older models (RTX 2060, RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti). In all cases, it comes off with flying colors: at 105,630 points on the Open CL API and another 99,419 points on Vulkan, it's between 17 and 18% faster than the RTX 3060 and up to 32% faster than the Radeon RX 7600.
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The second leak concerns internal NVIDIA documents that the company usually sends to the press to help with testing. Of course, since the measurements were carried out by NVIDIA, it's best to keep a certain distance. However, there's nothing "shocking" about what the company has announced. For example, we discover that with DLSS enabled on games supporting ray tracing, the RTX 4060 is 20% faster than the RTX 3060, 60% faster than the RTX 2060 and even 800% faster than the GTX 1060. What's more, if you activate NVIDIA's "magic" function - frame generation, which uses artificial intelligence to generate rather than calculate intermediate images - the differences increase dramatically: the RTX 4060 is 70% faster than the RTX 3060, 230% faster than the RTX 2060 and outright 1400% faster than the GTX 1060.
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It's a sign of the times that NVIDIA doesn't just advertise the performance of its new card in its documentation. No, the company also emphasizes its energy consumption, or rather its energy efficiency. Indeed, compared with the RTX 3060, the RTX 4060 already boasts a TDP of 110 Watts (compared with 170 Watts). NVIDIA has calculated that this equates to an average power consumption of between 1.1 kWh and 2.2 kWh. Here again, we're a long way from the greediness of the RTX 3060, which oscillates between 1.7 kWh and 3.4 kWh. To complete his calculations, NVIDIA takes a look at consumption over 4 years and the financial savings that can be made, depending on the cost per kWh in different countries. To complete the slide, it's worth pointing out that, at present, the kWh is traded in France at about the same rate as in the USA.
