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The graphics card with the 60 suffix has always been a favorite of players in the consumer market, it has the right balance of power consumption and performance, and the performance-to-price ratio has always been excellent. This year, with the release of AI-based DLSS 3 technology and the new NVIDIA Ada architecture, the performance of 40 series graphics cards has improved by leaps and bounds, so can the RTX4060Ti series win the reputation of dessert cards again? With this gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB graphics card, let's take a look.

According to the official statement, the 8G video card obtained by CTOnews.com is very suitable for experiencing high-frame games at 1080p resolution. For this reason, we have set up a high-configuration Intel test platform, which is configured as follows:

Design gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB this time the design is very "masculine", the alloy armor part is represented by almost straight lines, one of the four corners is diagonally cut, and the other three are curved. Titanium gray metal armor surface in addition to a simple oblique line treatment, there are no other decorative elements, the overall style is simple and capable.

In terms of card body size, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB BWH is 281*117*53mm, which belongs to the range of 3-slot graphics cards, and the external specifications of the three fans also show that its volume is not small.

Take a closer look at the fan part, 3 8cm diversion fans are blackened and painted and cut texture design to ensure a unified appearance while making the wind resistance smaller. At the same time, these three fans also support 3D start and stop and positive and reverse design and other functions.

The back of the card is covered with a fully wrapped silver-gray metal cover plate, which can give PCB more comprehensive protection, with the same hard core style, with gigabyte letters Logo and GEFORCE RTX logo printed on the left, and an air intake hollowed-out opening on the right, where you can see the internal heat conduction fins.

Gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB video card side can see a single 8Pin interface, the left side also provides a dual BIOS mode switch, factory default will run in OC mode, and switch to mute mode, the fan speed will be reduced, noise will also be reduced, providing users with a more quiet environment.

The right part of gigabyte below has made a gigabyte English Logo with hollowed-out Logo characters, which supports 1670 million colors of RGB lighting effect, which can be selected in official or third-party lighting control programs.

In terms of interface, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB provides 2*DP1.4a interface and 2*HDMI2.1a interface, which is relatively rare in mainstream graphics cards. It is more compatible and practical for video output, and supports 8K60Hz video output at the highest level.

Core parsing RTX 4060 Ti is based on AD106 core, and the overall architecture is close to RTX 4070. The most obvious difference is that 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, retaining about 75% of the RTX 4070 core size. Of course, its main NVENC video encoding unit and NVDNC video decoding unit are still retained, which means it is suitable for content creation.

The BOOST frequency for RTX 4060 Ti is 2535MHz, and the default frequency is 2250MHz. In the aspect of display memory, the 8GB GDDR6 Hynix display memory with 128-bit bit width is used, so theoretically, the power consumption and heat should be reduced to a certain extent. Nvidia said that historically, the display bit width has been used as an important indicator of GPU speed and performance levels. However, the explicit memory bit width itself does not fully reflect the performance of the storage subsystem. Although 128-bit flash memory is used this time, the storage subsystem of NVIDIA Ada Lovelace's new architecture increases the size of the L2 cache by 16 times, greatly improving the cache hit ratio.

As shown in the figure, 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 benchmark tests, compared with the performance of 2MB secondary cache, 32MB secondary cache reduces video memory bus traffic by an average of more than 50%. This 50% traffic reduction enables GPU to use its video memory bandwidth more efficiently and improve its efficiency by nearly twice as much. In a series of games and comprehensive tests, the enhancement of cache hit rate will increase the game frame rate by as much as 34%.

Basically, all these improvements are due to the latest NVIDIA Ada architecture, which is based on the TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process and achieves up to 2x performance-to-power ratio leaps. Its streaming multiprocessor throughput is more than twice that of the previous generation, and the ray-tracing computing power of the third-generation RT Cores is 2.8 times higher. In addition, the fourth generation of Tensor Cores added a FP8 engine with up to 1.32 Petaflops of Tensor processing performance, more than five times that of the previous generation. SER technology brings up to three times the performance improvement for ray tracing, and up to 25% improvement for overall game performance.

The new NVIDIA Ada architecture not only provides amazing performance and energy efficiency for a variety of professional graphics, video, AI, and computing workloads, but also brings many innovative features, such as:

1. A new optical flow accelerator is added, which can use AI to predict the motion changes in the scene, realize the frame generation technology of DLSS 3, and greatly improve the frame rate and image quality.

two。 Support AV1 encoder, can effectively compress the size of video files, while ensuring higher image quality. This is very useful for application scenarios such as video transcoding, streaming media, video conferencing, augmented reality and virtual reality.

3. The introduction of the RTX VSR function can achieve real-time video super-resolution, so that low-resolution video can also show clear details on the high-resolution screen.

Theoretical performance through the previous analysis, we generally know that the power consumption of this RTX 4060Ti is very low, then through the 15-minute test of the FurMark roaster, the final stable operating temperature of the baking machine is only 66.1 ℃, the apparent memory temperature is about 79.9 ℃, and the power consumption of the whole machine is only 160W, which is even lower than that of the previous generation RTX3060. If equipped with a 100W CPU such as Core i5, the power supply only needs 450W, which is really strong. Coupled with the fact that RTX4060Ti will launch a lot of single-fan and double-fan cards, ITX players are blessed.

Next, there is a 3DMark stress test, which can detect whether the performance of the graphics card has declined under continuous running points. Generally, it is considered qualified only if it is more than 97%. The measured score of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB is 99.6%, and the performance release is extremely stable.

In the 3DMark Time Spy DX12 test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB had a graphics card score of 14135, compared with 12277 for RTX 3060Ti, an increase of about 15 per cent, but lower power consumption.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme DX11 test, the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB card score reached 16668, compared with the RTX 3060 Ti score of 14553, an increase of about 14%.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB scored 8254 and RTX 3060 Ti scored 7158.

After reading the theoretical scores from the actual measurement of the game, let's actually test the performance of the game. Before testing, we set the resolution to 1920-1080, the game quality is set to the highest, and the highest light tracking option is enabled by default, and DLSS is enabled to the quality file by default. The first is the competitive game "CS:GO", which can reflect the high-frame performance of RTX 4060 Ti. The measured average number of frames has reached 545, enough to feed all kinds of e-sports monitors.

It is worth mentioning that 70 games have supported NVIDIA Reflex low-latency technology, of which eight mainstream competitive shooting games support NVIDIA Reflex, including "Apex Hero", "call of Duty: war Zone 2", "Destiny 2", "escape from Takov", "Fortnite", "Watchman: return", "Rainbow 6: siege" and "intrepid contract". You can expect CS2 to add NVIDIA Reflex support after updating Origin 2.

Then there are two classic 3A games. After opening the DLSS quality file in Wild Dart 2: redemption, and running its own benchmark test, the average number of frames reached 116frame, and the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB was happy to play the game under 1080p.

In Tomb Raider: shadow, the 1080p highest quality runs its own game benchmark with an average of 221 frames. Although this is an old 3A game, this performance is enough to show that even up to 2K RTX4060 Ti is fully manageable.

In the very representative light chase 3A game "control", the highest level light chases down to run the game, the average number of frames can also reach 146frames, can run all over the 144Hz e-sports display, enjoy the 3A effect.

Of course, it is DLSS 3 technology that can really open the gap between RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 3060Ti, which can take advantage of the fourth-generation Tensor Core and optical flow accelerators on AI and GeForce RTX 40 series GPU to generate more high-quality frames, thus greatly increasing 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!

So far, more than 300 DLSS games and apps have been released. There are more than 30 released DLSS 3 games. In terms of the progress of the release, DLSS 3 was adopted seven times faster than DLSS 2 in the first six months of the release of DLSS 2 and DLSS 3 respectively. It seems that the difficulty of adaptation is quite low. I believe that more and more games will adapt to DLSS technology in the future.

Let's first take a look at the most stressful "Cyberpunk: 2077". By default, the average frame number of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB is about 45 frames, which does not reach the 60-frame pass line, but if the quality of DLSS 2 is turned on, the average number of frames can reach an average of 82 frames, while opening the exclusive cool techs DLSS 3 of the RTX 40 series, it suddenly soars to an average of 82 frames. There is no pressure to have fun with the highest picture quality.

After updating the next-generation version, the requirements for graphics configuration have also been greatly improved, and the level of picture quality is comparable to that of the same type of next-generation 3A first echelon. So what will happen to gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB with the blessing of DLSS3 technology?

The average frame number of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB is only 44 frames when 1080p resolution is not enabled in the next generation version of "Wizards 3: hunter". After opening the quality file DLSS 2, it can achieve an average horizontal fluency of 60 frames. If you turn on DLSS 3 quality again, the frame count will increase to an average of 103 frames in an instant, and up to 100 frames in most scenes.

By contrast, the Legend of the Plague: Requiem, which is also the next generation's 3A masterpiece, is not only of great picture quality, but also better optimized. Even if DLSS is not enabled, it can basically reach the number of frames of about 60 frames.

After our measurement, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB does not turn on DLSS technology, the average number of frames is 59 frames, just stuck on the pass line. When the DLSS 2 quality file is turned on, the average number of frames will be increased to 77 frames. If DLSS 3 is further turned on, the final average frame number will reach 118 frames, which is in line with the high level of video game 3A.

As we mentioned earlier, the power consumption of the RTX 4060 Ti 8G is quite low, which can be driven by a 8Pin power supply. So we also use Nvidia's official FrameView tool to count the average power consumption in each 3A masterpiece. The measured data is quite good. The actual power consumption in most 3A masterpieces is about 130W-140W, which is basically the same level as the game. If the wattage of the power supply on your hand is not very high, you might as well wait for RTX4060Ti.

Creative production of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti series has also been given a certain amount of creative production capacity, and the graphics card 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.

The CUDA core of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G provides hardware acceleration for increased productivity. Almost all modeling software optimizes NVIDIA's GPU, so it can take into account efficiency, stability and compatibility. For example, in the commonly used rendering tool V-Ray, you can take advantage of the ray tracing feature of RTX acceleration to achieve high-performance final frame rendering. In addition, GPU with AI noise reduction can further accelerate interactive rendering and provide a smoother work experience.

In the field test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB scored 1405 points in V-Ray Benchmark, which made it easy to cope with entry-level and medium-scale modeling and rendering requirements.

The performance improvement of light chase is shown in the test project of V-Ray GPU RTX, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB got a score of 1919, and the modeling and rendering requirements with light chase are also supported.

We also tested the performance of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB in Blender, and the measured results are as follows. We can see that it has a very good acceleration effect on this modeling class productivity scenario.

In terms of video post-production, the NVENC encoder on gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB comes in handy, and it also supports the next generation video coding technology AV1,AV1, which can provide faster video coding and higher quality streaming media transmission performance while taking up the same space. As the major video platforms want to save the cost of server traffic, AV1 coding will become the mainstream coding method in the future.

We did a small test. In the professional version of clipping, we derived a video with the same resolution and the same bit rate. One coding protocol chose the traditional H264 and the other chose the next generation AV1 coding. As a result, the volume of H264 coding is only 106m, which is much smaller on the premise of ensuring the image quality.

In addition, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB, which supports AV1 codec, exports this video, which can be accelerated by a video card and can be suppressed in just 8 seconds.

We also tested Puget Bench For Adobe, in which in the video editing software Adobe Premiere, we turned on GPU CUDA acceleration, and then tested it with Puget Benchmark, with a final score of 1445. When editing 4K video material, the video line dragged and playback did not stutter.

In another more stressful video special effects software, Adobe Effects, we also used Puget Benchmark for testing, with a final score of 1590, which can be used to create some more complex visual effects.

In addition to video content production, RTX 4060 Ti 8G also provides RTX VSR technology in the field of video content consumption. The full name is RTX Video Super Resolution (RTX Video Super Resolution Technology). It can increase the resolution of online 1080p video to 4K at most through AI calculation of GPU. At present, this technology has 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, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING OC 8GB is still a sincere card in our actual measurement, no matter in terms of appearance design, interface configuration or actual performance and power consumption, its performance limit and potential are very outstanding. Under the premise of the hardware specification of RTX 4060 Ti 8G, there is no doubt that it can fully meet the 3A gaming experience under 1080p, but the most surprising thing is its low power performance, which really achieves the dessert card experience, which is very practical for players. If you want to buy a graphics card to play games recently, you can buy it without hesitation.

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