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With the official release of RTX 4060, the Qicaihong brand COLORFIRE has also launched a new "MEOW" series of cat cards-COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB. The small size card body plus cute appearance, coupled with the low-power design of RTX 4060, makes this card full of trendy properties. Let's take a look at its performance.

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 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 COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB graphics card is a very strong appearance of the product. First of all, in the appearance of packaging, we can see that it uses a purple theme tone. Represents the "cat card" image of the two-dimensional ninja blue cat and graphics card body appear together, cross darts, cat claws and other elements are very eye-catching.

Take out the graphics card body, this is a small card designed by double fans, the volume is relatively mini, the size of BWH is 249*136*41.9mm (including baffle), which is absolutely small. But there seems to be some difference between the color on the body and on the package.

The front armor part uses dark gray color matching, and the purple of the fan part is more eye-catching against the gray background. There is a top-down "cat scratch board" element oblique edge pattern in the middle of the card, and there is a MEOW under the fan on the right, representing the COLORFIRE MEOW series.

Although it is a double fan, the diameter of the 9cm fan is not small at all, and 11 blades help to enhance the wind gathering effect. The spindle is also printed with the heads of two blue ninja cats, which is very cute.

When you turn to the back of the graphics card, these black circles are actually ripples left by cats walking, and they are also very interesting. The whole backplane is also painted in dark color, and the vertical opening on the right helps to improve the heat dissipation efficiency, and there is a small COLORFIRE mark below the opening.

A cat's paw pattern is printed on one side of the card, and some sunken cuts and purple embellishments are made to make it look more hierarchical and not monotonous.

The front and side of the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB card is marked with GEFORCE RTX and COLORFIRE logos, and very thick heat pipes and heat sinks can be seen from the exposed upper part.

There is a single 8Pin interface here in the middle of the top.

After getting on the computer, the COLORFIRE logo on the right and the cat's paw pattern will light up the RGB lighting effect as a whole, adding a sense of cool and atmosphere to the chassis.

In terms of interface, COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB graphics card uses standard 1*DP1.4a interface and 3*HDMI2.1a interface, which can meet the output needs of mainstream video images.

Core parsing RTX 4060 is based on AD107 cores. The biggest difference compared with RTX 4060Ti 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 RTX 4060 is 2460MHz, and the default frequency is 1830MHz. The display memory uses 128-bit-wide 8GB GDDR6 Hynix memory, which is the same as the mobile RTX 4060, and the power consumption will be even 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. The Ada storage subsystem is different from the previous generation storage subsystem because of its 24MB L2 cache, which reduces the total storage traffic and brings a perfect balance of performance and power efficiency for 1080p games. At the same time, in a series of games and comprehensive tests, the greatly improved cache hit rate increased 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 129W, the video memory temperature is 78 degrees, and the graphics card temperature is only 66 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 COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB graphics card is 99.7%, and the performance release performance is very stable.

In the 3DMark Time Spy DX12 test, COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB card silent frequency ran out of the graphics card score of 10943 points, we mentioned earlier that RTX 4060 is more capable of overclocking, so try to put its core frequency beyond 250MHz, video memory exceeded 1000MHz, the results of the video card score rose to 11974 points, as compared to RTX 3060Ti's score of 12277 points, RTX 4060 in the small overclocking after the two performance is very close, but the power consumption of RTX 4060 can be much lower.

In the 3DMark Fire Strike DX11 test, the score of the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card was 29099, compared with 24058 for the RTX 3060.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, the score of COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card was 6136, and the score of RTX 3060 was 5084.

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, the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB card scored 510 points, meeting the OK 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, the average number of frames has reached 95 frames, it seems that the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card has no pressure at 1080p resolution.

In the well-optimized Tomb Raider: shadow, it has the highest image quality at 1080p, opens the light chase and DLSS quality file, and runs its own game benchmark, with an average frame count of 183frames. In the face of the old 3A game, the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB graphics card can be run with a 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. ‎

Let's first take a look at the frame count of the most stressful "Cyberpunk 2077" at + 1080p resolution. By default, the average frame number of COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB cards is only 35 frames, which is a host-level experience. However, after opening the DLSS 2 quality file, the average number of frames has risen to 64 frames, which is ready to run smoothly. Then open DLSS 3 and further increase the number of frames to 100. it is no problem for high frames to play freely.

The legendary 3A game "Wizards 3: hunting" has also launched a next-generation version, followed by higher configuration requirements and DLSS 3 technology support. When DLSS is not enabled, the average frame number of COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB card is only 37 frames at 1080p resolution. Even if the quality of DLSS 2 is turned on, it can not reach 60 frames. Fortunately, after turning on DLSS 3, the average number of frames has finally increased to 80 frames, which is very comfortable to play with.

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 the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB card has only 46 frames when the DLSS option is not turned on, once the DLSS 2 quality file is turned on, the average number of frames increases to 66 frames, just enough to satisfy the smooth play experience. After opening DLSS 3, the average number of frames can be further increased to 107frames, enjoying the high-frame gaming experience.

Finally, let's take a look at how much power it takes to run these 3A masterpieces. After all, the previous RTX 4060 Ti graphics card has surprised us. The average power consumption of the graphics card is in 130W-145W, so how much can RTX 4060 probe further this time? The answer is about 103W-114W, that is, 115W of 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. NVIDIA Studio has a full range of creative applications, 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.

In the actual test, in the GPU CUDA test of V-Ray Benchmark, the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card scored 1249 points, which is not a big problem to meet the requirements of entry and medium-scale modeling rendering.

The performance improvement of light pursuit is specifically shown in the test project of V-Ray GPU RTX, the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card got a score of 1877, and the modeling and rendering requirements with light pursuit are also supported. Compared with the previous RTX4060Ti score drop is not much.

We also tested the performance of the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB 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 COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB 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 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 of the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB card was 1341 points. When editing the video material, the video line dragged and playback did not stutter.

Summary of the MEOW series of this COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Purple 8GB graphics card compared to the current 40 series mainstream graphics card dazzling heap materials, dazzling the volume of the direction is completely different, it in the appearance of the choice of a two-dimensional + lovely style, the design is more thoughtful, compact and lightweight, obviously more suitable for ITX mini-chassis users who love table culture. When it comes to performance, the performance of the COLORFIRE GeForce RTX 4060 Shadow Violet 8GB graphics card is also good, coupled with the power-saving features of low power consumption, it can attract many players with mild game demand and good looks at present.

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