Nvidia Clown Themselves… Again! GeForce RTX 4060 Review

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Video Index
00:00 - Welcome back to Hardware Unboxed
00:26 - Ad Spot
01:07 - GeForce RTX 4060 Introduction
03:11 - Test System Specs
03:35 - Fortnite
04:17 - Resident Evil 4
05:00 - A Plague Tale: Requiem
05:44 - F1 22 [DX12]
06:16 - Cyberpunk 2077
06:46 - Dying Light 2 Stay Human
07:20 - Watch Dogs: Legion
07:55 - Forza Horizon 5
08:30 - Total War: Warhammer III
09:07 - Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
09:38 - Hogwarts Legacy
10:19 - Halo Infinite
10:46 - The Last of Us Part I
11:32 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
12:05 - Hitman 3
12:31 - Power Consumption
12:48 - 15 Game Average (1080p)
13:27 - 15 Game Average (1440p)
14:12 - Cost Per Frame (MSRP)
14:58 - Cost Per Frame (Newegg)
16:04 - Nvidia marketing gold!
17:29 - Temps and Clocks
18:08 - Final Thoughts

Nvidia Clown Themselves… Again! GeForce RTX 4060 Review

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Outro music by David Vonk/DaJaVo

[Hardwareunboxed]

At the end of the video I said $250 would make the RTX 4060 'a great buy'. I'd like to retract that. Rather $250 makes it worth considering, $200 or less would make it a great buy.

[tomtomkowski]

This is a 4050 on a 107 die rebranded to the 4060.
This card is ~60% faster than the 3050 and this is what it is - a 3050 successor with 8GB of VRAM for $300.
Thank you, Jensen!

[matthias]

Nvidia, these maniacs, did it! They made a card that performs in certain situations worse than the previous gen. You can’t insult your customer more than that

[acent]

In a nutshell, the 4060 is a notebook GPU, dressed up in a desktop cooler so they can apply a higher clock frequency. It's designed to perform somewhere between a 3060 and a 3060Ti, while costing nVidia less to produce than either of those. The product is all about optimizing nVidia's mainstream profit margins.

[Merrinen]

This card would be truly impressive if it's name was 4040 and it had a price to match the name.

[riven]

I honestly can't wait for the 96 bit, 6 gig desktop 4050 to be reviewed

it'll be a guaranteed laugh.

[adnelortiz]

This card would have made a very nice 4050 at $199.

[Dionyzos]

This proves once again that Nvidia is not desperate to sell GPUs at all at the moment. They're just doing what's necessary to stay in the game while making big money with AI.

[InnuendoXP]

All these new releases just keep making the 6700XT look better & better!

[middleclassthrash]

They're not clowning themselves, the consumers who use the Nvidia badge like a designer handbag are.

[rickysargulesh]

The more you buy the more you save is the most insulting thing Nvidia has come up with so far. 8Gb in the next 4 years. Enjoy that paperweight. One of the best reviews with GN as always. Thanks Steve and Steve!

[Prebondus]

11 years ago, the 60 series GPU was as fast as the second fastest in the previous gen. The GTX 660 was as fast as the GTX 570. That means the RTX 4060 should've been as fast as an RTX 3070 or an RTX 3070 Ti. Instead, this card is barely faster than the RTX 3060, the card it replaces. I am without words.

[phrog.]

The RTX 4060 is beat by the RTX 3060 Ti, actually insane. Nvidia needs to realize that frame gen does not make up for bad performance, and that 99% of games do not use frame gen, and literally anything other than gaming doesnt benefit from it either, raw performance matters.

[FSAPOJake]

Nvidia ignores raster performance, even though that's what 99.9% of games rely on, and only focus on RT + DLSS performance. They're also treating DLSS 3 frame gen like real performance and are saying "Up to 2-3x the performance of [insert older card here]!"

[paalosordoni]

One of the problems with Nvidia and AMD is the two main shareholders in both are Blackrock and Vanguard, they can not lose whatever you buy.

[engerlandt]

I love it when companies show this level of contempt for their customers.

It really shows who's got the power in this relationship.

[blackfieId]

Amazing how many generations of xx60 cards we've had targetting 1080p gaming :D

[luckeclips]

It’s impressive how the 4060 makes AMDs rx6650xt and rx6700xt look even better than they already did.

[dbzssj]

The 4060 at $300 would be a great deal IF they called it the 4030 title it deserves and charged $120 that 150mm² dies have historically sold for.

[Goldthius]

What I am astonished by is how close in some cases the RX 6800 is to the 4070 even. While being nearly 150 euro cheaper.