Hardware Breakdown Presents: Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti graphics card
When NVIDIA announced last week that it would launch a new graphics card series on May 24th, it heightened anticipation from many PC builders, such as myself. NVIDIA is releasing to market a mid-range graphics card tailor-made for the 1080p budget-conscious gamer. This published post will focus on the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in this month’s feature of the Hardware Breakdown.
Without adding more text to the intro, let’s begin to outline the core specs and features of the RTX 4060 Ti graphics card.
The graphics processing unit
The core engine of the RTX 4060 Ti is, of course, the GPU. It has a base clock measuring 2310 MHz frequency and a 2535 MHz boost clock frequency. It has a single precision 4352 CUDA core count; NVIDIAs own 138 4th gen Tensors Cores in this graphics card. In case you're wondering what exactly is a Tensor Core? It's enabled mixed-precision computing that dynamically calculates accelerated throughput, all while preserving accuracy. It is made specifically for deep learning and AI workloads that involve sizeable operations.
The graphics card memory
Regarding memory, the RTX 4060 Ti will have an 8GB GDDR5 total memory ( there is a 16GB version) and a 128-bit memory interface. The memory clock frequency measures 9000 Mhz, with an 18 Gbps memory data rate, with a sizeable L2 cache at 32768 K.
The power usage
According to the gathered information, the RTX 4060Ti graphics card doesn't consume as much power as its high-tier RTX 4080 and 4090 equivalent. During idle state, the card uses just 7 watts, 13 Watts AV1 video playback. On average, the card consumes 140 watts of gaming power. In addition, the max GPU temperature can exceed up to 90 degrees Celsius. Surprisingly the RTX 4060 Ti requires that you use a 500-watt power supply. However, I always recommend that builders, particularly beginners, use at minimum a 650-watt power supply, mainly if you include RTX 4080 or 4090 into your PC build.
What you also need to know
Before I conclude this post, there is other noted information you need to know. Firstly, the RTX 4060 Ti does support Max resolution displays, which include 4K at 240Hz or 8K at 60Hz. However, it's worth noting this is a dual-slot form factor graphics card. In addition, you need 2x PCIe 8-pin cables to power up this graphics card.
