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As an ITX enthusiast, the author installs an ITX host every month. Before RTX 40 series graphics cards were released, the iGame GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Mini, the best single fan graphics card on the market, was available. On the occasion of the release of the RTX 40 series graphics card, the author thinks that the single fan graphics card has a bright future this year. Because the new NVIDIA Ada architecture has greatly reduced the power consumption of the graphics card, the demand for heat dissipation has also dropped a lot. Sure enough, Seven Rainbow also updated its single fan product line and launched iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC.

IGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC is available in both 8G and 16G versions. CTOnews.com received the 8GB version. I will give you a detailed test in this article. Here is the platform for this test:

Design iGame GeForce RTX 4060Ti Mini OC 8GB's simple and fresh design, the overall silver-white design, due to the use of single-fan design, the overall size is very small, the specific size is 199.5*145*45.8mm (including baffle), is a rare single-fan RTX 4060Ti card.

The front of the graphics card has a metal drawing style decorative board, and there is a red decoration like a clothing sign in the upper left corner, which serves as the finishing touch for the silver-white card body.

The backplane of the graphics card uses an angular design style, which will not be abrupt in the ITX chassis, especially suitable for pure white ITX installation.

There is a hollowed-out design on the right side to facilitate the cooling air blowing through the fins to enhance the heat dissipation performance.

The iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB also provides a lighting design that is located on the side of the graphics card to display a customizable light strip.

The default lighting is a color cycle, and it can also be customized through the new version of iGame Center. The very convenient lighting control system is also the strength of Seven Rainbow.

With our choice of COLORFIRE B760M-MEOW WIFI D5 motherboard, the whole machine is set to orange light, which can instantly have an excellent sense of cute atmosphere.

In terms of power supply, it uses the standard 8Pin interface, the compatibility of the power supply is very strong, the upgrade computer does not need to change the power supply at all, and the security is higher.

The I / O interface bezel uses dark gray color matching, and the interface is equipped with 3*DP1.4a interface and 1*HDMI2.1 interface, and the highest 8K60Hz output is supported. In addition, the iGame one-button overclocking button of the Seven Rainbow signboard is not absent, press and restart to switch to high-performance BIOS, rookies can also enjoy the fun of overclocking.

In addition to the warranty card, the package also includes a sticker for the player's image of the Seven Rainbow Voltana, as well as gloves and fiber cloth.

Core parsing iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB is a graphics card based on NVIDIA's latest AD106 core. Its GPC core consists of three groups, including 4352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 third-generation RT cores and 51 ROP units, equivalent to maintaining 4070 of the number of RTX cores. It also has the N-card features of NVENC video coding unit and NVDNC video decoding unit.

The iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB also uses the new NVIDIA Ada architecture, which is manufactured using the TSMC 4N NVIDIA custom process, resulting in a 2x increase in performance and power consumption, twice the performance of the streaming multiprocessor compared to the previous generation, and the ray-tracing capability of the third-generation RT Cores. In addition, the fourth generation of Tensor Cores added the FP8 engine, which has up to 1.32 petaflops of Tensor computing performance, which is five times that of the previous generation. SER technology brings up to three times faster performance for ray tracing, and overall game performance can be improved by 25%.

It is worth mentioning that the interface adopted by RTX 4060 Ti 8G has also changed, from PCIe4.0*16 to PCIe4.0* 8, although it will bring almost no performance loss, but if you need to install ITX with graphics card extension cable (or graphics card vertical installation), it is recommended that you choose PCIe4.0*16 graphics card extension cable in order to light up at one time.

Theoretical performance the power consumption of RTX 40 series graphics cards is particularly low this year, which is definitely good news for the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB with a single fan. We tested the roaster and found that the stable core temperature was about 68.7 ℃ and the apparent storage temperature was about 79.5 ℃ after using FurMark for 15 minutes. The entire graphics card requires only 160W of power consumption, which is not only much lower than RTX 3060 Ti, but even lower than RTX 3060. In the conventional installation, only a 550W power supply is enough for the whole computer, which is very valuable for the ITX mainframe with SFX power supply.

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 iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB is 99.4%. The performance release is extremely stable and does not affect the performance release because of a single fan.

In the 3DMark TimeSpy DX12 test, the video card score reached 13628, compared with the RTX 3060 Ti score of 12277, an increase of about 10%, while much lower power consumption. The overall running performance is basically the same as that of the public version of RTX 4060 Ti.

In the 3DMark FireStrike Extreme DX11 test, the score of the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB graphics card reached 16060, compared with 14553 for the RTX 3060 Ti, an increase of about 10%. It is also about 400 points higher than the public version of RTX 4060 Ti.

In the 3DMark Portal Royal light pursuit test, the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB scored 8135, compared with the RTX 3060 Ti score of 7158. It can be said that in the current ITX installation, this graphics card is the flagship of the single-fan graphics card. Not to mention it has a larger 16G version to choose from.

Game measurement next, we will conduct a game test. Before we tested RTX 4060 Ti, the resolution was adjusted to 1920-1080. This time we focus on testing the number of frames at 2K resolution. The picture quality is adjusted to the highest, the light chase opens the most high-end light chase, and the DLSS opens to the balance gear. The first is the competitive game "CS:GO". After running its own BenchMark, the average frame reaches 374frame, which can run all kinds of electronic competition screens.

In another shooting game that requires a high frame rate, PUBG, iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB can reach a high number of frames in actual combat, and the game experience is excellent.

Next, the author also tested two classic 3A masterpieces. "Control" in the case of balanced DLSS, even 2K light chase the highest picture quality can reach an average of 90 frames, smooth play is not a problem.

In another classic 3A masterpiece, Tomb Raider: shadow, running its own BenchMark at the highest quality of 2K has reached an average of 175frames, which can also bring a game experience with a smooth number of frames.

However, the number of frames in RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti in the above games does not open the gap. What really widens the gap between the two is DLSS 3 technology, which uses 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 "Cyberpunk 2077" at the + 2K resolution of Super Light pursuit. If the DLSS 2 balanced gear is turned on, the average number of iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB frames can reach 63 frames.

If you open the exclusive cool techs DLSS 3 Game GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB of the RTX 40 series, the frame number will soar to an average of 91 frames, which can be said to be quite significant by almost 50%, and the improvement to the game experience can also be called a qualitative change.

The legendary 3A game "Wizard 3: Hunt" has also launched a next-generation version, followed by higher configuration requirements and DLSS 3 technology support, which is a pleasant surprise for RTX 40 series graphics card users who want to have better game performance. With DLSS 2 balanced gear turned on, the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB can achieve an average of 59 frames and can play smoothly, but frames may still fall out in complex scenes.

If AI-enhanced DLSS 3 technology is enabled, the number of iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB frames will soar to an average of 87 frames, which will satisfy the smooth play of all scenes.

In another next-generation 3A masterpiece with exploding picture quality, the Legend of the Plague: the Requiem. IGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB can play 60 frames after turning on DLSS 2 balanced file, and the measured average frame is 63 frames.

If the DLSS 3 frame insertion is enabled, the number of iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB frames will soar to an average of 106frames, enjoying the 100-frame play 3A masterpiece.

Another important advantage of creative production of RTX 40 series graphics cards is productivity. IGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini is also available in two versions, 8G memory version and 16G memory version. 16G version should be the only choice among single fan graphics cards at present. IGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB also 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.

First, we test the performance of iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB in the common modeling software Blender. The measured results are as follows. We can see that iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB has a very good acceleration effect on this kind of modeling work, and its speed can reach ten times that of flagship CPU.

In the later part of the video, the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB is also equipped with a NVENC encoder. And supporting the new generation video coding technology AV1,AV1 can provide faster video coding and higher quality streaming media transmission performance while occupying 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.

CTOnews.com also tested the PugetBench For Adobe family bucket to see if it could do the video editing job. Measured iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB in the Adobe Premiere commonly used by creative workers, we enable GPU Cuda acceleration, and then use PugetBenchmark to test. The final score is 1129, which can handle 4K video clips smoothly.

We also use PugetBenchmark for testing in Adobe Effects, another more stressful video special effects software. The final score is 2141, which is already excellent. But if there is a need for more productivity, consider the 16-gigabyte video memory version, which is rare in the industry.

Summary as an ITX player, I am very excited to watch Seven Rainbow continuously update the Mini product line. Because this product line is actually a very minority demand, the investment may not be proportional to the return. But Seven Rainbow has been insisting on developing such niche products for DIY players, giving us more choices. Back to the product itself, thanks to the ultra-high energy efficiency of the RTX 40 series, there is no problem with the performance release of the iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC 8GB. Whether used as a game or as a productivity, it will be a good choice for ITX players to install.

At present, iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC has been officially sold on major e-commerce platforms, the 8G version is priced at 3399 yuan and the 16G version is priced at 3899 yuan. If you are interested in ITX installation, you can check it out.

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