NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Review: Cutting Edge Gaming Under $400

Speed Way is the most recent addition to the UL 3DMark graphics test suite. Speed Way uses the DirectX 12 Ultimate API and leverages advanced features like DirectX Raytracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and real-time raytraced reflections, Mesh Shaders, and high resolution textures and artwork…

UL 3DMark Speed Way DX12 Ultimate Benchmarks

In the recently-released 3DMark Speed Way test, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti finishes squarely in between the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 3070 Ti, but well ahead of the mainstream Intel and AMD GPUs.

UL 3DMark Time Spy DX12 Benchmarks

3DMark Time Spy is a synthetic DirectX benchmark test from UL. It features a DirectX 12 engine built from the ground up to support bleeding-edge features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading. Time Spy is designed to test the DX12 performance of the latest graphics cards using a variety of techniques and varied visual sequences. This benchmark was developed with input from AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the other members of the UL Benchmark Development Program, to showcase the performance and visual potential of graphics cards driven by close-to-the-metal, low-overhead APIs. 3DMark Time Spy had the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti outgunning every card we tested, save for the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and higher-end GeForce RTX 4070.

UL 3DMark Port Royal Ray Tracing Benchmarks

Port Royal was released as an update to UL’s popular 3DMark suite. It is designed to test real-time ray tracing performance of graphics cards that support Microsoft DirectX Raytracing, or DXR. Although DXR is technically compatible with all DX12-class GPUs, the graphics card must have drivers that enable support for the feature.

If we add some ray tracing into the mix with Port Royal, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti extends its lead over the competing Intel and AMD mainstream GPUs, and inches closer to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.

DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) Feature Test

We also tested the cards with UL's DirectX Ray Tracing Feature test. This test is laser-focused on path-tracing performance, and uses few of the card's other resources.
Unlike Port Royal, the Direct X Ray Tracing Feature test is solely focused on ray tracing performance and showcases the strength of Ada's newer RT cores. Here, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is able to overtake the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and it extend its lead over the Intel and AMD cards. Though again, the RTX 4070 offers significantly more performance.

VR Benchmarks: VR Mark & Unigine Superposition

Superposition is the latest benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

In our first VR-related benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti finishes right on top of the Radeon RX 6700 XT, but trails the Intel Arc A770. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4070, however, maintain their top-dog status -- at least with the mix of cards we tested here.

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark is designed to test a PC’s readiness for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is currently the most taxing test offered by the tool.


VRMark tells a very different story than the Unigine test. The Intel Arc A770 LE falters here and stumbles down the stack, whereas the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti climbs the ladder and finishes in third, slotting in behind the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti.