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When I first got the graphics card of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White, the author felt very familiar. It turns out that it uses the same design of ‏ Sotai RTX 4070Ti X-GAMING OC Opal White. All use three-fan luxury heat dissipation module, but also pure white graffiti fashion style ‏, so the heat dissipation effect is worth looking forward to.

CTOnews.com also received Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal in advance. In this test, we will use a set of high-configuration intel configuration to test, and the resolution will be adjusted to 1080p to avoid video card bottlenecks. The specific configuration is as follows:

Design ‏ Sotai RTX 4070Ti X-GAMING OC Opal White is a larger graphics card. It uses three fans design, and occupies two slots of space, BWH size is only 30.3X12.1X4.5CM, the thickness is not very thick, but the length is relatively long. ‏

‏ Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White uses a three-fan design, the fan has also been whitened, and now the white look and feel is very strong. ‏

The backplane of the ‏ Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal white graphics card is still graffiti-style, with a low-saturation gray-white overall. ‏

The ‏ right backplane is still hollowed out to facilitate cooling air blowing through the fins to enhance heat dissipation performance. ‏

The outermost ring on the back of the ‏ card is a white edge, and it looks good from the side. ‏

The ZOTAC in the middle of the ‏ supports the display light. The default light is white, which has a strong sense of integration. Of course, if necessary, you can also customize the light control through the software. ‏

It is worth mentioning that the interface adopted by the RTX 4060 Ti 8G has changed from PCIe 4.0-16 to PCIe 4.0-8, which will not have any impact on players using the new motherboard. However, if your motherboard only supports PCIe3.0, then it runs in PCIe3.0*8 in practice, and the bandwidth will be affected to a certain extent. It is recommended to install the machine with a relatively new platform.

‏ power supply, it uses the standard 8Pin power supply interface, enough capacity of more than 450W power supply can be driven, for players to install the machine to provide a considerable number of options, but also save the cost. ‏

The ‏ I / O interface bezel uses dark gray color matching, and the interface is equipped with 3*DP1.4 interface and 1*HDMI2.1 interface, which up to support 8K60 frame output. ‏

Core analysis Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White's core is also based on the AD106 core. The overall architecture is similar to the RTX 4070 we tested before, but the GPC has changed from 4 groups to 3 groups, with a total of 4352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 third-generation RT cores and 51 ROP units, which can basically be understood to retain the core size of RTX 4070.

The BOOST frequency for RTX 4060 Ti is 2610MHz, and the default frequency is 2250MHz. In the aspect of video memory, the 128-bit bit-wide 8GB GDDR6 Samsung display memory has greatly reduced power consumption and heat.

NVIDIA officials have also explained why they chose 128-bit 's flash memory, mainly because the storage subsystem of the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture has increased the size of the L2 cache by 16 times, greatly increasing the cache hit ratio. Nvidia said that historically, the display bit width has been used as an important indicator to determine the speed and performance level of the new GPU. However, the explicit memory bit width itself does not fully indicate the performance of the storage subsystem. On the contrary, it is helpful to have a more comprehensive understanding of the storage subsystem design and its overall impact on game performance.

As shown in the figure above, the L2 cache bandwidth in Ada GPU has increased significantly. This makes it possible to transfer more data between the processing core and the L2 cache. In various games and comprehensive benchmarks, 32 MB level 2 cache reduces video memory bus traffic by an average of more than 50% compared to the performance of 2 MB level 2 cache. This 50% reduction in traffic enables GPU to use its video memory bandwidth more efficiently, with a nearly two-fold increase in efficiency. Therefore, in this case, the performance of the isolated video memory performance of Ada GPU with 288 GB / s peak video memory bandwidth is similar to that of Ampere GPU with 554 GB / s peak video memory bandwidth. In a series of games and comprehensive tests, the greatly improved cache hit rate increased the game frame rate by up to 34%.

It is worth mentioning that the interface of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opabai has also changed, from PCIe 4.0: 16 to PCIe 4.0: 8, which will not have any impact on players using the new motherboard. However, if your motherboard only supports PCIe3.0, then it runs in PCIe3.0*8 in practice, and the bandwidth will be affected to a certain extent. It is recommended to install the machine with a relatively new platform.

The theoretical performance is well known, and the power consumption of RTX 4060Ti is very low. But Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White still uses a three-fan heat dissipation module to suppress. So the temperature performance must be excellent. Then we will test the roaster next. After 15 minutes, the core temperature is only about 61.8 ℃, and the apparent memory temperature is about 72.2 ℃. The power consumption of the whole card is only 160W, and the low power consumption of the three fans is really easy.

Next, there is a 3DMark pressure test, which can detect whether the performance of the graphics card has declined under continuous running minutes. Generally, more than 97% can be regarded as a qualified graphics card. The measured score of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White is 99.5%, and the performance release is extremely stable.

In the 3DMark TimeSpy DX12 test, the video card score reached 13557. For comparison, RTX 3060Ti's score was 12277, an increase of about 10%, while the power consumption was much lower.

In the 3DMark FireStrike Extreme DX11 test, the Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal white card score reached 16170, compared with the RTX 3060 Ti score of 14553, an increase of about 10%.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White scored 8036 points, as a comparison, the score of RTX 3060 Ti was 7158 points, and the improvement of light pursuit performance was even greater than that of grating performance.

The actual test of the game is officially defined as a 1080p graphics card. For the next game test, we will use the 1080p resolution to test. The image quality will be adjusted to the highest. If there is a light chase, we will open the most high-end light chase, and if there is a DLSS, we will open it to the quality file. First of all, the competitive game "CS:GO", after running its own BenchMark, the average frame reaches 537 frames, which can meet the needs of high-frame play, and can run all kinds of electronic competition screens.

Next let's take a look at two classic 3A masterpieces. "Wild Dart 2: redemption" achieves an average of 114 frames with quality DLSS turned on.

In another classic 3A masterpiece, Tomb Raider: shadow, running its own BenchMark at the highest quality of 1080p has reached an average of 215 frames, which means it's okay to play at 2K frames.

In the light chase masterpiece "Control", when the maximum light chase is turned on, it can even reach 144 frames, and it is no longer a dream to play the light chase 3A masterpiece with e-sports 's number of frames.

What really opens the gap between the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 3060Ti is its DLSS 3 technology, which leverages the fourth-generation Tensor Core and optical flow accelerators on AI and GeForce RTX 40 series GPU to generate more high-quality frames, resulting in a significant increase in the number of frames. DLSS 3 is the latest version of NVIDIA deep learning oversampling technology and a revolutionary breakthrough in neural graphics technology, which can improve performance by up to 4x while maintaining picture quality and reaction speed.

To put it simply, the past DLSS 2 technology improved image quality and frame rate by rendering a low-resolution image and then zooming in to a high resolution through AI. On the basis of compatibility with DLSS 2, the new DLSS 3 technology adds a frame generation function, which can insert a new frame calculated by AI between two real frames, so as to double the frame rate. At the same time, combined with the super-resolution function of DLSS 2, AI can reconstruct up to 7/8 display pixels, and the game performance can be up to four times better than without DLSS!

Let's first take a look at the frame number of the most stressful "cyber punk 2077" at + 1080p resolution. By default, RTX 4060 Ti 8G still has no way to play, with an average of about 45 frames. If DLSS 2 quality is turned on, the number of frames can reach an average of 80 frames. And if you open cool techs DLSS 3, which is exclusive to the RTX 40 series, it will soar to an average of 120 frames, and 2K60 frames will be fine.

Legendary 3A masterpiece "Wizards 3: hunting" has also recently been updated to the next generation, with greatly improved configuration requirements, and it also provides support for DLSS 3 technology, which is good news for Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal.

In the next-generation version of "Wizard 3: hunter", the Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal averages only 45 frames when the 1080p resolution is not enabled. If you turn on the quality file DLSS 2, you can achieve an average of 63 frames of smooth play. If AI-enhanced DLSS 3 technology is enabled, the number of frames can soar to an average of 102frames.

In another next-generation 3A masterpiece, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, the optimization is relatively much better. Even if you do not turn on any AI technology, you can play smoothly at 1080p 60 frames, and you can play with the number of e-sports frames after DLSS 3 is added.

It is measured that when the DLSS technology is not turned on, it is only barely able to play. If you open the DLSS 2 quality file, you can achieve an average of 87 frames, and if you turn on DLSS 3 inserting frames, the number of frames will soar to an average of 144frames, achieving e-sports 's high-frame play.

Creative production benefits from strong heat dissipation and acceleration of the unique Cuda core of the NVIDIA graphics card. Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal can also undertake some creative production work, which supports the installation of NVIDIA Studio drivers to accelerate more than 110 of the most popular creative applications. Proprietary SDK makes these applications run faster and provides exclusive features such as Optix, DLSS, and Maxine. NVIDIA Studio has a full range of creative applications, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix. If you choose to buy 16G large display memory version, it also has a certain generative artificial intelligence computing power, and there is no problem to use it for simple AI painting training. However, the 16G large memory version has not yet been released, so let's do a simple test with the 8G version.

We first measured the performance of V-Ray Benchmark, and Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal scored 1363 points, which can meet some medium-scale modeling and rendering requirements.

Thanks to the improvement of light pursuit performance, the score of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White in V-Ray GPU RTX has also increased to 1886 points, which can also be used for some simple light pursuit rendering.

We also test the performance of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White in Blender, and the measured results are as follows, we can see that the Cuda core has a very good acceleration effect on this kind of modeling work.

In the latter part of the video, CTOnews.com tested the PugetBench For Adobe family bucket to see if it was up to the job of video editing. Measured Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opal White in the Adobe Premiere commonly used in video clips, we enable GPU Cuda acceleration, and then use PugetBenchmark to test. The final score is 1442 and 4K video can be edited smoothly.

We also use PugetBenchmark for testing in Adobe After Effects, another more stressful video special effects software. The final score is 1573, which can also be used to make some relatively complex special effects.

In addition to video content production, RTX 4060 Ti 8G also supports RTX VSR technology in the field of video content consumption. You can improve the resolution of online 1080p video to 4K at most through GPU's AI calculation. At present, this technology has been adapted to Chrome browser and Edge browser, as well as local player VLC.

The use of RTX video super resolution is very simple, as long as the driver of the RTX 30 series / 40 series is updated to the latest version, and the Chrome / Edge browser is updated to the latest version. Enable the path as follows: NVIDIA Control Panel-Video-adjust video image settings. There are four gears available under this option box. The higher the gear, the more obvious the super-resolution effect, but it will also consume more GPU resources.

At present, it already supports domestic mainstream video platforms (bilibili, Douyu and Huya), as well as some foreign video platforms (Youtube, Twitch, Netflix, Hulu and Disney+). It also supports local video super resolution. In the following test, after the resolution of the leftmost native 480p is overscored, the following 1-4 gear can be seen more clearly, and the actual look and feel is comparable to that of 4K.

↑ is 480p, VSR1, VSR2, VSR3, VSR4 from left to right.

To sum up, in fact, at the beginning of the Suotai X-GAMING OC series is blue-yellow graffiti color, the color is more jump, but it is relatively difficult to match with the mainstream chassis. And Suotai behind the main push of Opal white color matching is very good, white and gray color matching is very suitable to match with a variety of side transmission chassis. The excellent heat dissipation brought by the three fans makes it easy to suppress the 160W RTX 4060 Ti.

In terms of price, the price of Sotai GeForce RTX 4060Ti-8GB X-GAMING OC Opabai is set at 3499 yuan. If you want to use it for productivity, you might as well look forward to the follow-up sale of 16G large video memory version. At present, this graphics card has been put on the shelves of major e-commerce platforms. If you are interested, you can go and buy it.

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