PNY GeForce RTX 4060 XLR8 Review

Source: Tech Power Up added 02nd Jul 2023

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Introduction

PNY’s GeForce RTX 4060 XLR8 is a premium custom-design graphics card based on NVIDIA’s latest mid-range GPU that’s bound to sell in heaps. The XLR8 (pronounced: accelerate) tops the RTX 4060 with a large cooling solution designed to keep fan noise low when gaming; and while it sticks to NVIDIA-reference clock-speeds, you have headroom to overclock the card on your own. PNY is trying to undercut other premium custom-design RTX 4060 cards by offering their card at close-to-MSRP pricing, while giving you some of the features you expect from premium custom-designs.

The new GeForce RTX 4060 targets the vast majority of gamers that still play at 1080p resolution. It succeeds a long line of bestselling graphics cards by NVIDIA, including the RTX 3060, RTX 2060, and the GTX 1060, which have topped Steam Hardware Survey charts for popularity. Full HD remains a reasonable resolution for PC gamers to experience the eye-candy of today’s AAA games, and so NVIDIA’s job with the RTX 4060 is to provide them with a card that they can max out their games at 1080p, including with ray tracing, and take advantage of next-generation features.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is firmly a new-generation graphics card that’s based on the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture. It has two big things going for it that make it preferable to previous-generation graphics cards. Firstly, it gets the full RTX 40-series feature-set, which means support for DLSS 3 Frame Generation, something that nearly doubles frame-rates on supported games by drawing entire frames using AI, and without involving the graphics rendering machinery; and secondly, since the RTX 4060 is manufactured on the 5 nm foundry process, it comes with the lowest typical gaming power figures for any graphics card from this generation, rated at just 115 W.

The GeForce RTX 4060 maxes out the 5 nm AD107 silicon that it is based on. In a surprising move, NVIDIA is using its smallest ASIC from this generation to make the RTX 4060, while its sibling, the RTX 4060 Ti, nearly maxes out the larger AD106 silicon. Armed with 24 streaming multiprocessors (SM), the RTX 4060 gets 3,072 CUDA cores, 96 Tensor cores, 24 RT cores, and 96 TMUs. The AD107 features 48 ROPs, and the same 128-bit GDDR6 memory interface as the AD106, which on the RTX 4060 is wired to 8 GB of video memory. Generationally, this is a 50% reduction in memory size and bus width, but NVIDIA assures us that the 8 times larger on-die cache makes up for it, by reducing video memory round-trips by 40% to 60% in NVIDIA’s testing.

PNY is pricing the GeForce RTX 4060 XLR8 OC at a reasonable $320, or just $20 more than the NVIDIA MSRP. For the premium, you’re offered a more capable cooling solution that’s designed to run quieter than most MSRP cards, although the card does not come with any factory overclock. The GPU runs at the NVIDIA reference 2460 MHz, and the memory is untouched at 17 Gbps. It will be interesting to find out what the extra $20 is worth, having seen some of the MSRP cards that even offer overclocked speeds.

Short 10-Minute Video Comparing 10x RTX 4060

Our goal with the videos is to create short summaries, not go into all the details and test results, which can be found in our written reviews.

GeForce RTX 4060 Market Segment Analysis
  Price Cores ROPs Core

Clock		 Boost

Clock		 Memory

Clock		 GPU Transistors Memory
RX 6500 XT $150 1024 32 2685 MHz 2825 MHz 2248 MHz Navi 24 5400M 4 GB, GDDR6, 64-bit
RTX 2060 $170 1920 48 1365 MHz 1680 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 6 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 5700 XT $150 2560 64 1605 MHz 1755 MHz 1750 MHz Navi 10 10300M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3050 $210 2560 32 1552 MHz 1777 MHz 1750 MHz GA106 12000M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 2070 $210 2304 64 1410 MHz 1620 MHz 1750 MHz TU106 10800M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
Arc A750 $240 3584 112 2050 MHz N/A 2000 MHz ACM-G10 21700M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RX 6600 $170 1792 64 2044 MHz 2491 MHz 1750 MHz Navi 23 11060M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 6600 XT $210 2048 64 2359 MHz 2589 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 23 11060M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 3060 $260 3584 48 1320 MHz 1777 MHz 1875 MHz GA106 12000M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RX 7600 $250 2048 64 2250 MHz 2625 MHz 2250 MHz Navi 33 13300M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RTX 4060 $300 3072 48 1830 MHz 2460 MHz 2125 MHz AD107 18900M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
PNY RTX 4060

XLR8		 $320 3072 48 1830 MHz 2460 MHz 2125 MHz AD107 18900M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
Arc A770 $290 4096 128 2100 MHz N/A 2187 MHz ACM-G10 21700M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 2080 $240 2944 64 1515 MHz 1710 MHz 1750 MHz TU104 13600M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3060 Ti $300 4864 80 1410 MHz 1665 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 4060 Ti $380 4352 48 2310 MHz 2535 MHz 2250 MHz AD106 22900M 8 GB, GDDR6, 128-bit
RX 6700 XT $310

 2560 64 2424 MHz 2581 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 22 17200M 12 GB, GDDR6, 192-bit
RTX 2080 Ti $380 4352 88 1350 MHz 1545 MHz 1750 MHz TU102 18600M 11 GB, GDDR6, 352-bit
RTX 3070 $320 5888 96 1500 MHz 1725 MHz 1750 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
RTX 3070 Ti $400 6144 96 1575 MHz 1770 MHz 1188 MHz GA104 17400M 8 GB, GDDR6X, 256-bit
RX 6800 $430 3840 96 1815 MHz 2105 MHz 2000 MHz Navi 21 26800M 16 GB, GDDR6, 256-bit
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