MSI GeForce RTX 4060 GAMING X 8G

Mid-range graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory from the well-known Taiwanese manufacturer MSI. Included in the universal line of MSI Gaming in 2023, most of the models of which are made according to the principle of "reliable cooling and nothing more." In terms of cost, it is located exactly between the middle and upper price segments. The manufacturer is positioning itself as a modern and high-tech replacement for the mid-range GPU of the previous generations (GTX 1660 and RTX 2060).

Focused on gaming builds with 1080p and 1440p monitors. MSI GeForce RTX 4060 GAMING X 8G Accelerator is based on AD 107 GPU (Ada Lovelace architecture, 5nm), 2610MHz GPU, 17000MHz Memory, 3072 Stream Processors, and 15TFLOPS advertised total performance . Declared support for PCI-E v4.0 and DirectX 12 Ultimate. The design of the RTX 4060 largely repeats the RTX 3060 model from last year: a relatively small printed circuit board is covered by a standard two-slot cooling system with a pair of TORX Fan 5.0 fans, a copper base and a pack of heat pipes, and separate RT cores and tensor cores are provided for processing lighting and artificial scaling.

third generation cores. It is important to note that ray tracing works more comprehensively and efficiently, and the DLSS system has learned to work with four types of data (frames, optical flow, motion vectors and depth). Simply put, ray tracing now makes the picture even more beautiful, but at the same time loads the video card more, and DLSS recovers dropped frames more efficiently, increasing the average FPS several times and making the gameplay smoother.

Putting RT and DLSS aside and focusing on pure performance, it turns out that the GeForce RTX 4060 at the initial data in games gives an average of 15% more FPS than its predecessor RTX 3060. In synthetic tests, the gap reaches almost 20%. At the same time, the power consumption declared by the manufacturer is a very modest 115 W, which approximately corresponds to the modest requirements of popular 5-year-old GPUs. The card occupies exactly 2 slots in the motherboard, so it can be safely considered as the main GPU in a small-sized gaming or work PC with a compact placement of components and far from the most powerful 500-550 W power supply. In addition to the card itself, the package includes software for optimizing and overclocking the system (MSI Control Center and MSI Afterburner).