NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Review: Affordable Cutting-Edge Gaming

We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and 32GB of G.SKILL DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use and enabled Resizable BAR support. We dialed in memory clock to its optimal performance settings using its EXPO profile, then formatted the solid state drive and installed Windows 11 Professional before performing all updates. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

Our Graphics Test System Configuration:

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Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero  32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Intel Arc A770 LE Radeon RX 6600 XT Radeon RX 6700 XT GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 4060 Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.10.01 NVIDIA Drivers v531.93 / v536.2 Intel Arc driver v101.4369

Compute / Rendering Benchmarks: LuxMark v4 Blender v3.5.0 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3 IndigoBench v4.4.15 Gaming / Graphics Benchmarks: UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Company Of Heroes 3 Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 2022 Guardians Of The Galaxy

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LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks

IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks

The GeForce RTX 4060 traded blows with the Radeon RX 67x0 cards in Indigobench depending on the scene being rendered, but slots in about you'd expect overall. It can't catch the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but clearly outruns the 12GB GeForce RTX 3060.

Blender v3.5.0 GPU Rendering Benchmarks

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...

Blender is somewhat of a showcase application for NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GPU architecture. Blender can make use of the RT cores in NVIDIA's GPUs, and as a result, performance is much higher than any competing GPU or processor. The GeForce RTX 4060 lands in second place here, just behind the RTX 4060 Ti. Note, however, that the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti actually pulls ahead of the 4060 with the Junkshop model, likely due to its wider memory interface.

Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results

The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.


Once again we see the GeForce RTX 4060 land just behind the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but well ahead of the mainstream Radeons. In this test though, the GeForce RTX 30 series' wider memory interfaces give them the edge, despite the newer NVDEC engines on-board the 40-series cards.