Introduction

ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC is the company’s value custom-design graphics card model priced at MSRP, based on NVIDIA’s performance-segment fast-mover, the RTX 4060 Ti (8 GB). This card features an aesthetically pleasing board design that’s both compact and sober-looking. It doesn’t have a flashy RGB setup, but instead a two-tone cooler-shroud and a triple-slot cooling solution with two large axial-flow fans.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is designed for maxed out gaming with ray tracing at 1080p as well as 1440p, although with ray tracing enabled, you have to get clever with your game’s settings, let GeForce Experience find the right settings, or better yet, take advantage of features such as DLSS. In recent weeks, NVIDIA has launched a 16 GB variant of the RTX 4060 Ti, which we found to offer an inadequate performance uplift over the 8 GB original to justify its 25% price premium. The RTX 4060 Ti, with its starting price of $399, competes with similarly priced last-generation cards that are 1440p-capable. What RTX 4060 Ti has to offer besides improved energy efficiency, is the DLSS 3 Frame Generation feature.

The RTX 4060 Ti is firmly a next-gen graphics card as it’s based on the same Ada Lovelace graphics architecture powering the rest of the RTX 40-series. Besides groundbreaking efficiency from the 5 nm foundry node, “Ada” introduces improvements across all its on-die components, introduces new hardware, and re-architects the memory subsystem. The new “Ada” CUDA core, in addition to increased IPC and support for new math formats, comes with shader execution re-ordering. The 3rd generation RT core, besides generational improvements to the ray intersection performance, adds support displaced micro-meshes, which increases the complexity of ray traced objects. The new Optical Flow Accelerator component assists in the generation of entire alternate frames entirely using AI, which is why DLSS 3 Frame Generation is exclusive to the RTX 40-series.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is based on the 5 nm AD106 silicon, which it nearly maxes out, enabling 34 out of 36 SM (streaming multiprocessors). This works out to 4,352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 RT cores, 136 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. While the 8 GB memory size of this card isn’t changed from that of the previous-generation RTX 3060 Ti, the memory bus width has been halved to 128-bit. While NVIDIA is using faster 18 Gbps memory speeds, the memory bandwidth still falls quite a bit behind that of its predecessor. NVIDIA says that it has significantly re-architected the video memory sub-system with Ada, with greater on-die cache dependence. The company has enlarged last-level caches by 8-12 times on all GPUs in this generation.

The ASUS RTX 4060 Ti Dual OC comes with a compact board design, a dual-fan setup using the company’s popular Axial-Tech fans that direct all their airflow axially thanks to webbed impellers; and a proper aluminium fin-stack heatsink. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, which should be plenty given the TGP of 160 W. ASUS is backing the card with a handy factory overclock, with the GPU running at 2565 MHz (compared to 2535 MHz reference), while the memory speed is left untouched at 18 Gbps. The best aspect about this card has to be its price, with ASUS asking no more than the $399 baseline MSRP that NVIDIA set for the RTX 4060 Ti.