RTX 4060 Ti vs RTX 3060 Ti rasterization performance comparison at 1440p and 4K shows Lovelace GPU suffers due to low memory bandwidth

When NVIDIA introduced the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB, it claimed that the GPU performs up to 1.15x higher vs the RTX 3060 Ti at 1080p with DLSS enabled the place relevant. But, the corporate curiously disregarded any mentions of the board’s 1440p and, by extension, 4K performance. Now that the evaluations of the RTX 4060 Ti are out, we are able to see the high-resolution gaming performance of the RTX 4060 Ti and the outcomes are lower than supreme to say the least.

According to TechPowerUp’s overview, the performance distinction between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti shrinks because the decision slides up from 1080p to 1440p to 4K. At 1080p, the RTX 4060 Ti was 13% sooner than the RTX 3060 Ti with a mean FPS of 131.4 throughout the examined video games. The performance benefit for the Lovelace card slimmed down to roughly 10.5% at 1440p with common FPS numbers of 96.5 and 87.3 for the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti respectively. At 4K, the delta between the 2 playing cards declined additional to 7% with the RTX 4060 Ti solely producing 4 FPS extra on common vs the RTX 3060 Ti.

Interestingly, Hardware Unboxed’s overview yielded totally different outcomes. Across the 15 video games that the outlet examined, the RTX 4060 Ti averaged 111 FPS at 1080p in contrast to 102 FPS of the RTX 3060 Ti representing a delta of 9%. The performance hole between the 2 GPUs shrank to simply 5% at 1440p whereas 4K noticed the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 3060 Ti provide equivalent performance.

Finally, Gamers Nexus additionally confirmed the RTX 4060 Ti’s scaling drawback in relation to decision with the last-gen RTX 3060 Ti coming shut to the performance of the Ada Lovelace board at 1440p and virtually matching it in 4K.

So, why does the performance of the RTX 4060 Ti apparently not scale nicely with decision? The reply may very well be discovered within the severely cut-down bus width and total memory bandwidth, because the RTX 4060 Ti contains a 128-bit broad bus and 288 GB/s of bandwidth vs the 256-bit broad bus and 448 GB/s bandwidth of the RTX 3060 Ti. As famous by Gamers Nexus, though NVIDIA claims that the presence of the 32 MB of L2 cache successfully will increase the memory bandwidth of the RTX 4060 Ti from 288 GB/s to 554 GB/s, it doesn’t translate nicely into real-world gaming performance.

Long story quick, it seems that the RTX 4060 Ti is barely an improve when it comes to rasterization performance with out DLSS at 1440p and affords virtually the identical performance at 4K vs the RTX 3060 Ti. Coupled with the US$400 worth, it isn’t stunning that retailers are allegedly anticipating low demand for the brand new RTX 40 mid-ranger.

Fawad Murtaza – Tech Writer – 437 articles printed on Notebookcheck since 2021

I’m Fawad, a fellow tech nerd. As a tech junkie, my relationship with expertise goes again to my childhood years. Getting my first Intel Pentium 4 PC was the beginning of journey that might finally carry me to Notebookcheck. Finally, I’ve been writing for tech media since 2018. From small no-name tasks to trade leaders, I’ve labored with plenty of tech publications.