Nvidia RTX 4060 Review ft. MSI

1. Introduction2. Meet the MSI Ventus 2X Black3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Days Gone9. Dying Light 210. God of War11. Horizon Zero Dawn12. The Last of Us Part 113. Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered14. A Plague Tale: Requiem15. Red Dead Redemption 216. Resident Evil 417. Total War: Warhammer III18. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)19. Cost Per Frame Analysis20. Ray Tracing: Control21. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 207722. Ray Tracing: Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive23. Ray Tracing: F1 2224. Ray Tracing: Hitman 325. Ray Tracing: Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered26. Ray Tracing: Shadow of the Tomb Raider27. Ray Tracing: The Witcher 328. Ray Tracing Performance Summary29. DLSS Testing30. Clock Speed31. GPU Temperatures32. Acoustics33. Power Draw: 1080p34. Power Draw: 1440p35. Power Draw: 2160p (4K)36. Performance per Watt: 1080p37. Performance per Watt: 1440p38. Performance per Watt: 2160p (4K)39. Total System Power Draw40. Closing Thoughts41. View All Pages

Using the graphics card-only power draw figures presented earlier in the review, here we present performance per Watt on a per-game basis for all twelve games we tested at 1080p.

Per-Game Results at 1080p:

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12-Game Average at 1080p:

Combining the performance and power data, we take a look at efficiency levels – presented here as performance per Watt. We know Ada Lovelace is a very efficient architecture, though the 4060 isn't quite as impressive as the 4060 Ti here, as performance per Watt is actually reduced by 6%. We're talking fine margins though, and it is still a generation ahead of the RX 7600, offering 33% better efficiency than AMD's latest GPU.

Ray tracing results

As a bonus, we now include the power figures for all eight games we test with ray tracing enabled.

8-Game ray tracing average:

We see similar results when looking at the ray tracing average, but this time the 4060 is almost twice as efficient as the RX 7600 due to its superior ray tracing performance while also offering lower power draw.

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