NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Review: Affordable Cutting-Edge Gaming


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060: Game Benchmarks And Resolution Scaling Tests

asus rtx 4060 box
Company of Heroes 3 is a recently released real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment. A follow up to the popular Company of Heroes 2, this latest addition to the franchise features new mechanics and modes and is set in the Italian and North African theaters of World War II. We tested the game at 1080p and 1440p resolutions, with maximum image quality settings...

Company Of Heroes 3 Benchmarks

company of heros 3 benchmarks
Company Of Heroes 3

coh rtx 4060 details
Company Of Heroes 3 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Details @ 1080p

coh1 geforce rtx 4060 performance


coh2 geforce rtx 4060 performance

Company of Heroes 3 doesn't make use of any advanced rendering techniques, like ray tracing, and is representative of many DirectX titles. Here, the GeForce RTX 4060 performs relatively well, trailing only the higher-end GeForces at 1080p. At 1440p, the GeForce RTX 4060 still manages to outpace the Arc A770 and Radeon RX 7600, but the Radeon RX 67x0 cards are still able to pull ahead due to their larger frame buffer.

Far Cry 6 Benchmarks Benchmarks

Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from Far Cry 6, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, Far Cry 6 is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, ruled by dictator "El Presidente" Antón Castillo, famously played by actor Giancarlo Esposito. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this AAA title.

farcry 6 screenshot
Farcry 6

farcry rtx 4060 details
Farcry 6 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Details @ 1080p

farcry1 geforce rtx 4060 performance


farcry2 geforce rtx 4060 performance

The GeForce RTX 4060 is tightly grouped with all of the mainstream cards in FarCry 6, though it technically scored another couple of victories over the Radeon RX 7600 and 12GB GeForce RTX 3060 at both resolutions we tested.

Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game where you play as Star-Lord and lead the rest of the Guardians from mission to mission. The game’s minimum requirements call for a Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060-class GPU, but it also supports some of the latest graphics technologies, including DXR and DLSS.

guardians of the galaxy screenshot
Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

guardian rtx 4060 details
Guardians Of The Galaxy NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Details @ 1080p

guardians1 geforce rtx 4060 performance


guardians2 geforce rtx 4060 performance

With AMD's latest drivers, when testing on a Ryzen 7000-based system Ray Tracing doesn't function properly on the Radeons in this game, so we've dropped them from the charts (something funky is going on between the Ryzen's low-power iGPU and the discrete cards). Still, the GeForce RTX 4060 lands in the expected position, behind the higher-end Ti, but ahead of the Intel Arc A770 LE

guardians3 geforce rtx 4060 performance

Flip on DLSS in Guardians and the framerates increase dramatically for all of the cards. The GeForce RTX 4060 inches close to the 100FPS mark at 1440p when using DLSS, but it ultimately still finishes behind the higher-end cards.  

Returnal Benchmarks

Returnal is a port of the popular PS5 game, which follows Selene as she searches for a way out of the barren landscape of an ancient civilization. Returnal is a fast-paced, third-person shooter that makes use of many advanced graphics techniques and employs technologies like DLSS, XeSS, and FSR...

returnal pc benchmarks
Returnal

returnal rtx 4060 details
Returnal NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Details @ 1080p

returnal1 geforce rtx 4060 performance


returnal2 geforce rtx 4060 performance

The new GeForce RTX 4060 performed relatively well in Returnal. At 1080p, the GeForce RTX 4060 lands in third place, behind the higher-end GeForces, but well ahead of any of the Radeons. The same is true at 1440p, though at the higher resolution the Arc A770 LE is able to pull ahead.

returnal3 geforce rtx 4060 performance

Enabling DLSS (or XeSS, or FSR) results in a significant framerate boost across the board. Still, the GeForce RTX 4060 is able to outgun competing mainstream cards, and trails only the higher-end GeForces.

F1 2022 Benchmarks

F1 2022 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and NVIDIA technologies (like DLSS). We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray-tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what the graphics cards could do.

f1 2018
F1 2022

f1a geforce rtx 4060 performance


f1b geforce rtx 4060 performance

The GeForce RTX 4060 ultimately competes very closely with the Radeon RX 7600 in F1 2022 at both resolutions, but pulls ahead by a couple of percentage points at 1080p. The higher-end GeForces and Radeon RX 67x0 XT cards offer more performance in this game, however.

f1c geforce rtx 4060 performance

With DLSS or FSR 2 enabled, we once again see significant increases in performance, but it doesn't change the rankings. While all of the cards are able to achieve playable framerates at 1440p, GeForce RTX 4060 is still able to outpace the Radeon RX 7600 and previous-gen 12GB GeForce RTX 3060.

Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks

Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time in 1988, and the intervening 30-some years have not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the 1980s imagined what the future would look like. The game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technologies, features like DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations...
cyberpunk 2077 benchmarks
Cyberpunk 2077

cyberpunk1 geforce rtx 4060 performance


cyberpunk2 geforce rtx 4060 performance

The GeForce RTX 4060 trades blows with the Radeon RX 67x0 XT cards in Cyberpunk. At 1440p, only the higher-end GeForce are faster than the GeForce RTX 4060, but 1080 the Radeon RX 67x0 XT cards pull ahead slightly. The Radeon RX 7600 and 12GB GeForce RTX 3060 can't keep pace with the GeForce RTX 4060, though.

cyberpunk 3a geforce rtx 4060 performance

Will DLSS enabled, the GeForce RTX 4060 breaks the 50FPS mark at 1440p. Flip on frame generation, however, and the GeForce RTX 4060's minimum framerate surpasses 60FPS, and its average breaks into the 70s.

Related content