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Although Nvidia officially released its RTX4060Ti graphics card last month, I am afraid many players are watching because there is a more cost-effective RTX4060 that has not yet been announced. This is not, take advantage of the summer vacation RTX4060 is also released quickly, as a video card featuring 1080p resolution game experience, can it respond to the expectations of players? Let's find out through this gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card.

For this test, the CTOnews.com will use a high-end PC with a 13-generation i9 processor, and the specific hardware configuration is shown in the following figure. In terms of display, as RTX4060 is the main 1080p fluent game experience, we chose a 1080p resolution e-sports monitor to participate in the test.

Design gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card continues the consistent black and gray design style, most of the shell armor is black, supplemented by clean oblique splicing of silver gray painting, a corner of the card has also been "cut off" a triangle, such a design makes the card more hierarchical, but the whole is still low-key and simple deep wind.

The backplane of the video card is backed by titanium gray, supplemented by low saturation blue-gray decorative texture, sculpture Logo and AORUS Logo, giving people a very strong metallic flavor. The surface of the backplane is also slotted in many places, and the position of the screw is more "unrestrained", but this combination enhances the overall texture, which is more distinctive than the previous RTX4060Ti. The opening in the lower left corner of the backplane also "hides" a BIOS mode switch, which can switch between the factory default performance mode and quiet mode, taking into account the player's needs for performance and mute.

A large area of hollowed-out holes on the right side of the backplane can directly see the internal heat conduction grille, which also further improves the heat dissipation efficiency.

In terms of fans, 3 9cm diversion fans are still painted black, and the top of the shaft is printed with AORUS Logo and carving head, bright and dark, supporting 3D start and stop and positive and reverse design and other functions.

The gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card uses a single 8Pin interface on the side and an indicator light at the top, which will light up to remind players when the power supply is abnormal.

In addition to the exposed internal heat dissipation module, the shell of the graphics card wrapped on three sides is also printed with GEFORCE RTX graphics card and AORUS Logo, of which the AORUS Logo on the right will turn on the RGB effect after lighting, making the visual effect of the side more cool.

After we got on the machine, we found that the RGB lighting effect of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G is simple and durable, it does not have a large area of light pollution effect, and will not visually affect the player's immersion in using the computer, but a simple and refreshing embellishment to make the chassis not monotonous.

In terms of interface, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card provides 2*DP1.4a interface and 2*HDMI2.1a interface, the specification is more conscientious, the compatibility and practicality of video output is further, the highest support 8K60Hz video output.

Core parsing RTX4060 is based on AD107 core. The biggest difference compared with RTX4060Ti is that the number of GPC cores has been reduced from 11 pairs to 8 pairs, becoming a 4-4-4 TPC. There are 3072 CUDA cores, 96 Tensor cores, 24 third-generation RT cores and 35 ROP units. Of course, compared to the RTX 4060 mobile, everything remains the same except that the L2 cache becomes 24 MB.

The BOOST frequency of RTX4060 is 2460MHz, and the default frequency is 2125MHz, and the overclocking potential seems to be higher than RTX4060Ti. The display memory uses the 8GB GDDR6 Hynix display memory with 128-bit bit width, which is no different from the mobile RTX 4060, and the power consumption will be lower.

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 RTX 4060 further reduces power consumption on the basis of RTX 4060Ti. Through the 15-minute roaster test of FurMark, it is not difficult to see that the power consumption of the whole machine is only about 129W, the video memory temperature is 68 degrees, and the graphics card temperature is less than 60 degrees. Compared with the previous generation RTX 3060, it can be said to be energy-saving and environmentally friendly. A single / double fan RTX 4060 small card is bound to become a good heart for ITX players.

Next, we will conduct the TimeSpy stress test of 3DMark, 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 ELITE 8G graphics card is 99.5%, and the performance release performance is very stable.

In the 3DMark Time Spy DX12 test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card ran out of the video card score of 11358 points. We mentioned earlier that this card can overclock, so we did two small overclocking operations. The core frequency exceeded 200MHz and 250MHz respectively, and the video memory exceeded 1000MHz. As a result, the video card score rose to 12115 points and 12200 points respectively, compared with 12277 points for RTX 3060Ti. RTX 4060 performed almost the same after a small overclocking. But the power consumption of RTX4060 is much lower.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike DX11 test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card scored 29426, compared with 24058 for RTX 3060.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card scored 6241 points, and RTX 3060 scored 5084 points.

The next step in the game measurement is the game measurement that everyone is most looking forward to. We uniformly adjust the resolution of the game to 1920-1080, set the game image quality to the highest, and enable the highest-level light tracking option by default, while DLSS turns on the quality file by default. First of all, let's take a look at the performance of the competitive game "CS:GO". In the benchmark test of custom maps, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card scored 498 points, meeting the OK performance of mainstream competitive high-frame games and high-brush displays.

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".

In the classic 3A masterpiece "the Wild Dart 2: redemption", choose the highest picture quality, and open the DLSS quality file, run your own benchmark test, and the average number of frames has reached 95 frames. It seems that the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card has no pressure at 1080p resolution.

In the well-optimized Tomb Raider: shadow, with the highest image quality at 1080p, open the light chase and DLSS quality file, and run its own game benchmark, with an average frame count of 184frames. In the face of the old 3A game, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card can be run with 2K resolution.

Of course, it is DLSS 3 technology that can really open the gap between RTX 4060 and RTX 3060, which can take advantage of the fourth-generation Tensor Core and optical flow accelerators on the AI and GeForce RTX 40 series GPU to generate more high-quality frames, thus greatly increasing the number of frames. DLSS 3 technology can improve performance by up to 4x while maintaining picture quality and reaction speed.

So far, more than 300 DLSS games and apps have been released. There are more than 30 released DLSS 3 games. In terms of release progress, in the first six months of the release of DLSS 2 and DLSS 3, DLSS 3 was adopted seven times faster than DLSS 2, and it is believed that more and more games will be adapted to DLSS technology in the future.

First of all, there is my old friend "Wizard 3: hunting", a game that supports DLSS 3 technology and improves picture quality in an all-round way. how will gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card perform?

When the DLSS option is not enabled, the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card is really a bit difficult, with an average frame count of only 36 frames. After opening the quality file DLSS 2, the frame count can only reach 48 frames, which belongs to the game console level. Fortunately, after opening DLSS 3, the frame count suddenly reached 77 frames, which is considered to have conquered the wizard III at 1080p resolution.

In contrast, the optimized "Plague Legend: Requiem" frame number is significantly better, and the picture quality is not to be said.

In the test, although there were only 44 frames when the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card did not turn on the DLSS option, once the DLSS 2 quality file was turned on, the average number of frames increased to 59 frames, just enough to satisfy the smooth play experience. After turning on DLSS 3, the average number of frames can be further increased to 91 frames, which is very comfortable to play with.

At present, "Cyberpunk: 2077", one of the top runners in 3A games, is all too familiar with the pressure on graphics card hardware.

By default, the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card can only run to an average of 35 frames, but after opening the DLSS 2 quality file and DLSS 3, the game performs better than the Plague Legend: Requiem, reaching 64 frames and 97 frames respectively. DLSS's improvement on the game is still obvious.

Finally, let's take a look at how much power it takes to run these 3A masterpieces. After all, the previous RTX4060Ti graphics card has surprised us. The average power consumption of the graphics card is in 130W-145W, so how much can the RTX4060 probe further this time? The answer is about 103W-111W, that is to say, 110W GPU power consumption can meet the needs of the game, this performance is even lower than the current mainstream game book.

Creative production NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 has also been given a certain creative production capacity to support 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. There is also a full range of creative applications for NVIDIA Studio, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Broadcast, Canvas and RTX Remix. Let's do a simple test with the 8G version.

The CUDA core of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 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.

Entering the actual test, in the GPU CUDA test of V-Ray Benchmark, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card scored 1253 points, which is not a big problem to meet the requirements of entry and medium-scale modeling and rendering.

In the V-Ray GPU RTX test project, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card got a score of 1882, and the modeling and rendering requirements with light chase are also supported. Compared with the previous RTX4060Ti score drop is not much.

We also tested the performance of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card in Blender. The measured results are as follows. We can see that it has a very good acceleration effect on this modeling productivity scenario.

In terms of video post-production, the NVENC encoder on the gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G graphics card 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 also tested Puget Bench For Adobe. In the video editing software Adobe Premiere, we turned on GPU CUDA acceleration, and then tested it with Puget Benchmark. The final score was 1421. When editing the video material, the video line dragging and playback did not stutter.

To sum up, in our experience, the biggest impression of gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G card is that it is not gaudy, the hardware is willing to stack, and most importantly, the power consumption when playing games is low. From the positioning of the RTX 4060 graphics card, the performance of this card is also completely in line with its excellent experience of playing 1080p resolution 3A games. For players with a low budget and clear use of the game, gigabyte AORUS GeForce RTX 4060 ELITE 8G should become a dessert card with outstanding performance-to-price ratio and high quality.

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