I really hope this Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti GPU performance rumor is fake #GeekLeap

Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti is underneath the hypothesis highlight once more, as following a leaked spec replace yesterday, we now have a efficiency estimation for the mid-range Lovelace GPU.

The unhealthy information, although, is that this approximation of efficiency shouldn’t be what you – or anybody else – need to hear. If Kopite7kimi is correct, then the RTX 4060 Ti goes to be equal to the RTX 3070 by way of its body fee shifting energy.

Okay, so we’ve to recollect that is only a rumor, and it might be off the mark – maybe a way off the mark (let’s hope so).

Nonetheless, even listening to this degree of efficiency aired as a rumor is severely worrying by way of the route Nvidia is doubtlessly heading with the RTX 4060 Ti. By way of it being very a lot a smaller step up from the RTX 3060 Ti than the remainder of the Lovelace vary has taken from their respective counterparts.

Perhaps we are able to hope for higher issues on the pricing entrance. Or perhaps not, if a MyDrivers (opens in new tab) article (highlighted by VideoCardz (opens in new tab)) is correct – add additional salt right here – which cites sources who declare that the RTX 4060 Ti will hit cabinets with a price ticket of round $499 in US foreign money (about £400/AU$720) – the identical because the RTX 3070. The purported launch date for this mid-range GPU nonetheless stands in the midst of 2023, as earlier hypothesis has contended.

Evaluation: Er, this will’t be proper… can it?

A price ticket of ‘under $500’ as famous by VideoCardz appears to point that Nvidia is likely to be contemplating a price ticket of $499. In idea, maybe this might be decrease, however the suggestion is actually that it’ll price greater than the 3060 Ti retailed for ($399 within the US at launch).

The efficiency rumor on Twitter is the extra worrying a part of these contemporary revelations, although. If the assertion that the RTX 4060 Ti can be on par with the RTX 3070 is right, that’s an enormous disappointment. Mainly, this implies Nvidia is seeking to make the RTX 4060 Ti have about as minimal a generational achieve as could be possible. Keep in mind, just one step down from the RTX 3070 is the 3060 Ti, and you might hardly have a scenario the place the 4060 Ti was degree in efficiency with its predecessor.

In that mild, that is one thing of a baffling rumor – we hope, and certainly consider, it’ll develop into unsuitable. For us, the RTX 4060 Ti absolutely has to face as much as the pace of the 3070 Ti, or not less than be very near that.

That mentioned, the leaked specs for the 4060 Ti so far do point out a disappointingly weak card, with simply 8GB of VRAM (and a 128-bit reminiscence bus), together with fewer cores than the 3060 Ti by a good manner. And if the most recent hypothesis of 160W for energy utilization is right, that factors to some probably fairly tame clock speeds for the GPU in addition.

These specs might be unsuitable in fact – certainly all these rumors might be – and even when that is Nvidia’s plan proper now, it may change earlier than launch (which remains to be a superb half a 12 months away).

Hopefully, Nvidia will notice that going weak sauce with the RTX 4060 Ti can be a severely unpopular transfer, particularly if that pricing is stored comparatively excessive for the cardboard (as has very a lot been the theme with Lovelace graphics playing cards to date). Just because that is such an essential GPU for the common PC gamer by way of the mid-range candy spot.