Introduction

ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4060 Ti OC is a serious-looking, factory-overclocked, custom-design rendition of NVIDIA’s latest entry to the mid-range. The new RTX 4060 Ti is designed for maxed out gaming at 1080p, including with ray tracing. You can take advantage of features such as DLSS 3 Frame Generation to even play at higher resolutions such as 1440p on supported games, with fairly high settings. Firmly rooted in the GeForce RTX 40-series, and based on the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, the RTX 4060 Ti offers all of the new-generation features, and since the GPU uses the latest 5 nm foundry process, you can expect some of the best performance/Watt for gaming graphics.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti debuts the new 5 nm AD106 silicon to the desktop segment, which it nearly maxes out, enabling 34 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors (SM), which work out to 4,352 CUDA cores, 34 RT cores, 136 Tensor cores, 136 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. 8 GB is still the standard memory size for the RTX 4060 Ti (a 16 GB variant is coming this July), however, compared to its predecessor, the RTX 3060 Ti, NVIDIA has narrowed the memory bus width to 128-bit. The company is using faster 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory chips, but the real secret-sauce is at the architecture-level, where NVIDIA has enlarged the on-die L2 cache by eight times compared to the GA104 silicon powering the RTX 3060 Ti. This reduces the GPU’s memory round-trips for its most frequent data access, by anywhere between 40-60%, allowing NVIDIA to slim the memory interface. The GeForce Ada graphics architecture debuts the 3rd generation of NVIDIA RTX, the company’s groundbreaking technology that combines real-time ray traced elements such as lighting, shadows, reflections, global illumination, and motion-blur, with conventional raster 3D graphics, to significantly increase realism.

The ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 4060 Ti uses a large triple-slot cooling solution, with a design focus on low noise. This big cooler should make short work of the GPU’s low heat output—its TGP is just rated at 160 W, which is also why the company opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. The cooler is designed to make it easy to maintain the fans and heatsink, without having to reapply the TIM. You also get some handy features such as dual-BIOS, letting you switch to a Quiet BIOS that runs a more relaxed fan curve. The company is pricing the card at $460, a steep 15% step up from the $400 NVIDIA MSRP.