RTX 4060 Reddit Verdict: Great Card, Terrible Value?

Just hoping that people do not forget when NVIDIA releases the RTX 5XXX and compares it to the RTX 4XXX making it seem like a major upgrade, instead of this generation just being bad.

$20 and people lay down pitchforks. What a world.

Another underwhelming and overpriced mid-range card from Nvidia, how surprising. It is almost as if Nvidia wants to kill the mid-range market so that they can make their high-end stuff more appealing.

You know your product is so bad that the marketing team at Nvidia HQ is scrambling to find one last reason by literally shoving us the only advantage they got, which is efficiency, and they actually had to calculate the potential power savings you will get over the years.

Damn, that is actually kinda alright value now.

Good candidate for a media PC utilizing RTX Video Super Resolution and AV1 encoding.

Seeing the actual numbers just really paints the full picture on just how bad it is and how it is a 4050/4050ti really.

If you need a mainstream card for 300-400$ right now get a 6700XT while its still there for around $300. Or if you see a 3060Ti close to $300 that is also good. None of the current gen stuff can compete with that.

It is mostly because of prebuilts. Nvidia liquidated a massive amount of them to prebuild companies and the overwhelming majority of $1000 ish PCs have a 4060.

A 3060 Ti performs better than a 4060.

Real pricing on the 7600 has dropped to 250-260, giving it quite similar cost per frame. If you are interested in a 4060, then the 6700 XT for 310 is a much better buy.

There is no bad GPU really, just bad prices. The 4060 gets crushed by the 6750XT in 1080p that are in the same price bracket usually. If you cannot find a 6750XT, I would look into a 7700XT or 6800 maybe.

It is sad when the 3060ti outperforms the 4060.

There's no bad gpu mostly, it's usually bad pricing. But in my opinion just save up and get a 4060 ti 16gb if you really do want to get the 60 series, make sure to research thoroughly too.

I bought my first pc days ago. I have a 4060 with a i5 12400f. I played plague tale at 1440p high/mid settings with dlss and fg and I get a solid 70-80. Cyberpunk was about the same but without fg. It is a good card with very low power consumption which helps when you are tight on your budget and cannot spend extra money on a PSU.

I always liked RTX 4060 tbh. The idea of low power consumption xx60 series card is better than power guzzlers like 3060 Ti. Hell even its GDDR6X version is more power hungry than 4070 Super.

Just like that the 4060 is palatable. Would still rather have a used 3060 12GB but for a new card, it is now a better choice than the 7600 imo.

4060 is a fine card, my time with it gaming at 1080p was perfectly acceptable. Demanding games needed DLSS quality to be enabled but that is what it is there for. Coming from a 2060 which only had 6GB of VRAM, 8 felt like plenty for the resolution. Most games I could run high textures at 1080p without breaking the limit.

The 4060 is a decent 3050 successor and should be $250 maximum, though even that is too high.

I have a 4060 Ti 16GB that I got at a steep discount. The power draw is really appealing for my use cases.

It is an amazing GPU until you run out of VRAM. Nvidia is making the deliberate decision to pair extremely powerful GPUs with not enough VRAM. Adding more VRAM would not raise costs that much anyway. We had mainstream 8GB GPUs 7+ years ago.

Just like people on this sub hailing the failure of the 50 series when the reality is that most owners are probably pleased.

If you can get one in the $240-250 USD range it would be perfectly fine. Near $300 the rx6750xt is just noticeably faster.

Any 8gb vram GPU for over $300 is a bad GPU. 12gb vram is what I would look at minimum for a 1440p monitor. 4060 is a 1080p card, and only an ok one. Low performance high cost.

I have built systems with 4060s for 3 friends of mine, and it is super rare and super hard to find a game where you run out of vram at 1080P resolution.

I'm using it right now and I can tell u that it is good but only if you mainly play at 1080p like me. I've always been playing at 1080p and the card feels enough for me and I am satisfied. However, if you're planning on playing at 1440p then you might want to get a better card.

The performance you get for the price is decidedly mediocre. The fact that the 4060 is sometimes beaten by the 3060 when VRAM usage is high is absolutely ridiculous.

I have a 4060/13620h laptop that runs cyberpunk at 1080p with path tracing using dlss quality/framegen at 60-70 fps. Honestly it still amazes me that I can have that level of graphics on a laptop.

The 4060 is a great card for what it is. Realistically, $250 would be a better new price for it but Nvidia always commands a premium.

I have a 4060ti been running it for a few months now. I have not ran into any issues with it. Runs every game I play nice and smooth, usually at about 120fps. The card stays nice and cool even under full load, never gets above 65c.

Super good for 1080p, dlss and frame gen is the main reason why this gpu is good. Not to mention the low power consumption and the compatibility with like 500 apps and games to hardware accelerate them.

The 4060 is NOT trash. It is simply bad value. What I mean by this is that it's priced too high. People are rightfully shitting on it, but it's still a solid card. It should handle the vast majority at high/ultra and reach 60fps on 1080p.

I personally think its a good buy and a substantial upgrade from your current build. Get the 4060 and you will not regret it.

The 4060 is not bad, but it's priced too high compared to its competition.

It's a fine card for 1080p gaming. It has DLSS and Frame Gen and it can be found for $284 right now.

Its definitely worth thinking about VRAM as a key factor nowadays, more now than in the last 5 years. There will be a point in a couple of years where some games are made that no longer run at all on 8GB cards - we have already reached that point for 6GB cards.

4060 is a perfectly fine card, it is just overpriced and does not bring a big performance jump from the previous xx60 generation. Also a questionable decision to choke the PCIe lanes which will affect performance on PCIe3 boards when you run out of VRAM.

My brother has a rtx 4060 in his rig. It plays the new cod at extreme settings on a 1080p at 120fps.

I just got one in Japan for about $220 used, its absolutely amazing! As someone who needed an upgrade, this was perfect! Loving it!

The 4060 performance wise is somewhere between the 3060 and 3060 ti. What kills it though is the low vram and small bus width and the price. $300 is a hard sell when you could get the 6750XT for a similar price which is a performance tier higher with more vram.

The price is just terrible. Same price as the 6750xt but the 6750xt is 21% faster at 1080p and 26% faster at 1440p. Why would people suggest you pay for a card that is a full tier slower?

It is not a bad card, technologically. Its power consumption and features are great. The downside is its price and VRAM amount. There are better-performing AMD equivalents, and it does not bring much performance uplift in traditional gaming scenarios compared to the RTX 3060.

I myself own a 4060 And I absolutely love the card. It was an upgrade from my GTX 950.

Drop the price more, it is a card that relies solely on it being a 40 series which works to an extent and it is not a bad card exactly, it is just that anyone with any tech knowledge knows it is not the greatest value. If they had just given it 12GB like the 3060 it would be a top seller.

Upgrading from what you have yes. The 4060 will give you a lot more performance than your old 1650. Is the 4060 good value compared to other cards currently available? Not really. It is a bit expensive for the level of performance in today games.

It is an okay card, the problem is that it is priced wayyy too high for what it is, and it also has 8GB of vram which is starting to be an issue today and will only become more of an issue as time goes on.

Yes a 4060 is good enough for decent settings in any game with DLSS Performance mode, just not maximum settings with path tracing.