The MSI GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GDDR6 Ventus 2X OC graphics cards are aimed at computer users interested in high performance in games and graphic applications. These graphics cards are designed to offer reliable performance and efficiency in modern games, virtual reality (VR), video editing, and other demanding graphic applications.
They include two fans for cooling the graphics card, providing good heat dissipation and low noise levels. With 8GB of GDDR6 memory, the graphics card can support high resolutions and demanding graphic settings.
Comparison of the new Ada Lovelace architecture with the previous generation
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which is at the heart of every GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics card, offers a huge generational leap in performance, efficiency, and capabilities. Built with TSMC's special 4N process and featuring up to 76 billion transistors (compared to 28 billion in the previous generation), Ada is the most advanced GPU architecture ever created. Ada is extremely efficient, with more than double the performance at the same power consumption compared to the previous generation Ampere architecture and features excellent overclocking capability as power supply increases.
Ada Lovelace Architecture
New streaming multiprocessors, up to 2 times more performance and power efficiency.
Fourth-generation Tensor cores, up to 4 times more performance with DLSS 3 compared to brute-force rendering.
Third-generation RT cores, up to 2 times more ray tracing performance.
Ray Tracing
The NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture fully unleashes the capabilities of ray tracing technology, which simulates the behavior of light in the real world.
With the unique power of the new GeForce RTX 40 series and the 3rd generation RT cores featuring the new hardware units "Opacity Micromap Engine" and "Micro-mesh Engine," you will experience unparalleled gaming experiences.
Nvidia DLSS 3
The performance multiplier, powered by AI
DLSS is a revolutionary breakthrough in AI graphics that massively boosts performance. With the help of the new 4th generation Tensor cores and the optical flow accelerator in the GeForce RTX 40 Series, DLSS 3 analyzes successive frames and motion data from the new optical flow accelerator 40 to create additional high-quality frames.
DLSS Super Resolution
Increases performance for all GeForce RTX cards, using AI to generate higher resolution frames from lower resolution input.
DLSS collects samples of multiple lower resolution images and uses motion data and feedback from previous frames to reconstruct native quality images.
Nvidia Reflex
Nvidia Reflex and GeForce RTX 40 Series cards provide the lowest latency and the best responsiveness for the ultimate competitive advantage.
Designed to optimize and measure system latency, Reflex offers faster target acquisition, quicker reaction times, and the best aiming precision for competitive games.
Nvidia Studio
Creativity with AI
Take your creative projects to the next level with Nvidia Studio. With new dedicated hardware, the RTX 40 series unlocks unparalleled performance in 3D rendering, video editing, and graphic design.
Enjoy feature-rich RTX accelerations in top creative applications, world-class Nvidia Studio drivers designed to provide maximum stability, and a suite of exclusive tools that leverage the power of RTX for AI-supported creative workflows.
Nvidia Encoder
Steal the show with incredible graphics and high-quality, lag-free streaming.
With the help of the 8th generation encoder (NVENC), the GeForce RTX 40 series ushers in a new era of high-quality streaming with support for next-generation AV1 encoding, which is designed to provide greater performance than H.264, unlocking stunning streams at higher resolutions.
Additionally, exclusive optimizations in your favorite live streaming applications give your audience the best version of you, every time.
Nvidia Broadcast
Your AI-powered home studio
The NVIDIA Broadcast application transforms any room into a home studio, taking your live streams, voice chats, and video calls to the next level with powerful AI effects such as noise removal and room sound, virtual background, and much more.
Nvidia Omniverse
Connect your creative worlds with a universe of possibilities
The Nvidia Omniverse functions as a hub for connecting the existing 3D workflow, replacing linear pipelines with live synchronization creation, allowing you to create like never before and at speeds you have never experienced.
Nvidia Canvas
The application that brings artificial intelligence to painting
Use AI to turn simple brushstrokes into realistic landscape images. Quickly create backgrounds or speed up the exploration of your ideas, so you can spend more time visualizing your concepts.
Game Ready Drivers
GeForce Game Ready drivers provide the best possible experience for your favorite games. They are finely tuned in collaboration with developers and have been extensively tested on thousands of hardware configurations for maximum performance and reliability.
GeForce Experience
Capture and share videos, screenshots, and live streams with your friends. Keep your drivers up to date and optimize your game settings. GeForce Experience allows you to do all that. It is the essential companion to your GeForce graphics card.
8K HDR Gaming
Connect, play, capture, and watch with exceptional HDR at resolutions up to 8K with the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. Capture HDR footage up to 8K with the GeForce Experience ShadowPlay feature and play back smoothly with AV1 decoding.
With incredible power and a massive 8 GB memory, it can handle many popular games in 8K. It supports 8K 60Hz HDR and variable refresh rate (VRR), as defined in HDMI 2.1, all with a single connection cable from your computer to the 8K display.
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality offers some of the most immersive experiences on a gaming PC. But getting the right VR is challenging. With actual screen resolutions at 4K and increasing, minimum refresh rates of 90 Hz, and high latency tolerances, VR is one of the most demanding PC applications in the world and requires the most powerful GPUs in the world.
NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance you need to power top titles on the latest VR units. Additionally, they feature technology to crank up the settings for truly impressive, immersive gameplay.
Resizable Bar
Nvidia's Resizable BAR is an advanced PCI Express feature that allows the CPU to access the entire GPU frame buffer simultaneously, improving performance in many games.
TORX FAN 4.0
The TORX FAN 4.0 is based on teamwork, using pairs of fan blades that are connected to each other with a connected outer ring that focuses the airflow into the Dual-Fan cooling system.
Effective Thermal Padding
Clay-based thermal pads provide additional heat dissipation for the board's components.
Reinforcement Backplate
The reinforcing backplate features a flow-through design that provides additional ventilation.
Security
The additional fuses integrated into the custom PCB board provide extra safeguards against electrical damage.
MSI Center
The exclusive MSI Center software helps you get the most out of MSI products. Monitor, adjust, and optimize in real-time with just a few clicks.
MSI Afterburner
MSI Afterburner is the most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking software in the world. Take full control of your graphics card while monitoring key system metrics in real-time.
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For an entry-level graphics card for casual gamers, it is excellent. And mainly with very low power consumption compared to something better. It also has a compact size and fits everywhere. In terms of temperatures, it is average because it struggles if you increase the resolution. I simply kept it for 3 months. I replaced it with a 7800xt nitro. There, the consumption is more than double. But from 120 to 160 fps at 1080p, I went to 550. It's all relative. What does anyone ask for?
Flawless and mostly silent. A very good choice for mid-level gaming if you want to play whatever is currently available and will be released in the near future without having a huge card that consumes half a hydroelectric plant's worth of power and takes up all the space inside the PC.
Nvidia's technologies in the 4000 series take it to another level. In my opinion, the king of the mid-range.
Excellent graphics card - of course, the evaluation is based on my typical knowledge as a user, it plays AAA games at very good quality on a 1080p screen, of course, because the rest of the setup bottlenecks the graphics card since it's from 2017, I did a complete upgrade with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. Above all, good price (07/10/2024 ~ 300€)
To answer your questions: if you are a casual gamer like me, for example, 10 hours a week or even less, this is the best solution. It makes no noise, has minimal power consumption (thus a cheaper power supply), and is small in size.
If you are not a casual gamer and play a lot, you should go for something better, with 16GB VRAM at 400+ euros.
Together with the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, I play Black Myth Wukong at 4K with DLSS Balanced and the settings on Cinematic and some on high.
For 1080p, it plays everything at 60+ fps without drops below 60. If a game is demanding, you can enable DLSS, which gives you an extremely large boost in fps without losing image quality.
I believe that for 10/06/24 at 300 euros and below, it is very worth it. With DLSS enabled and at 1440p, it plays a lot of games as well; you may just need to keep only the important settings on and some others low to have a pleasant gameplay experience.
And let's not forget the main point: it consumes very little power compared to others that give you 10 more fps, and then the electricity company comes and tells you to pay up now
For 1080, it is an excellent card. When it is under heavy load and the temperature rises, the fans start to be heard. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet and is covered by the sound produced by the rest of the case.
I believe it should be placed in cases with good airflow, in order to maintain as cool as possible.
I don't understand why there is so much hate towards this graphics card. I believe that everyone doesn't recommend it because it is priced the same as the 3060 and has 8GB of VRAM. Regardless of this, it has been shown on UserBenchmark to be up to 20% better than the 3060, at the same price, and it also consumes 30% less power. In most games, the difference in frames is noticeable, where I managed to have up to 50 more FPS. It is a small graphics card, it fits in any size case, and it is relatively lightweight, so it doesn't sag either. If you find it for €300, I highly recommend it. As for the vram issue, if you don't play many AAA games, like Hogwarts Legacy, etc., you won't even notice the difference between 12 and 8GB.
The RTX 4060 is a very efficient card with a power consumption of about 115w. So we don't need a large power supply. The specific Ventus 2x that I tried is also compact in size, so it can fit in almost any case, even in mini ITX builds. It has very good temperatures and is relatively quiet. However, I consider it a bit overpriced as a GPU and I would like its price not to exceed 300 euros. You can watch a presentation video at the following link:
There are thousands of videos to watch performance comparisons between competitors. 4060, 7600, 6650, 3060ti, 6700xt, and whatever else is available around 300 euros.
However, no one cares about power consumption. So go ahead and buy whatever you want... whatever they sell you, and pay for it every quarter to the DEI! Let's see which one is cheaper.
50-60-80w power consumption per hour, difference x how many hours of gaming per day did we say?... for how many months?... let me see you!! So, only 4060! Because the DEI is waiting for you!... keep searching then which one gives you 5 more frames.
Congratulations to Nvidia for enriching the DEI and impoverishing you after the 3 series.... they did it!
Once upon a time, power and consumption didn't interest anyone! Everyone was looking at performance and frames.
But now the DEI says... we're open and waiting for you!
For 300 euros, especially if the purpose of purchase is gaming... I would not recommend the card at all. There are much better deals both from Nvidia and AMD (and soon enough, with the pace at which they are improving their drivers, possibly from Intel as well). In case you are interested in a more professional workload, the purchase might be more reasonable, but again, everything depends on what you intend to use it for.
Personally, I bought it for 300 euros, one month after it was released, with the *** that JmcTech does (bless him), and still with a heavy heart because my power supply (500W) would barely run the 3060 Ti DDR6X, which you can still find the Asus model on skroutz for around 320 euros. It's a great purchase if you're looking for a new card and have a 600 or 650W power supply for productivity and want Nvidia, no doubt about it. The 115W is therefore for me the only redemption that can justify the card, a power consumption that no one can deny the mastery of TSMC and NVIDIA. Let's go back to the negatives in case they deter someone from buying it:
Even the 8GB VRAM might not be enough soon if you base your purchase on DLSS3 as it increases VRAM usage. But it's enough for 99% of modern games. (Come on guys, set the textures to high, the difference in 1080p compared to Ultra, etc., is not that huge). Okay, I'll stop with the excessive talk and to finish off, if you want it for gaming, there's the 6700xt for 330 euros on skroutz now... DO NOT BUY the card for more than 300 euros, and even at this price, consider the 6650xt or 7600 for 260 euros, unless you have a serious reason to be limited to the Nvidia environment.
It is a good graphics card with a small flaw, which is the 8GB memory. But at this price, you won't find a better graphics card for 1080p gaming and ultra settings. If you also play games that support DLSS3, it surpasses expectations and the FPS is through the roof! It is worth it for 1080p gaming.