Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 makes a fantastic upgrade for anyone looking for best-in-class 1080p performance while leaving the door open for some solid 1440p performance (with caveats) at an acceptable price point. The biggest problem though is with its 8GB VRAM, which puts a cap on how high up the resolution stack this card can effectively go even as its best features are tied too closely to whether game developers implement them.

Ultimately, the Nvidia RTX 4060 is another very underwhelming launch. Real generational gains for this class of hardware just don’t seem to be a thing any more, and while it is slightly more palatable than the RTX 4060 Ti, it's still very hard to recommend outright, at least not without a reasonable price cut.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 (tested here in Asus livery) produces exceptional ray-tracing performance, thanks to its "Ada Lovelace" architecture. It's the best modern, moderate-cost graphics card for 1080p gaming.

Reliable performance and sensible prices abound. This card launches cheaper than the GTX 1060 did, at least when you adjust for inflation as £239 in 2016 money is now £306 in today’s market… yikes. If the Steam Hardware Survey has taught us anything it’s that the xx60 cards sell by the truckload and I see no reason why this new one will be an exception.

The GeForce RTX 4060 is here, delivering exceptional efficiency and a nice performance uplift over the GeForce RTX 3060. As a mainstream GPU the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X is impressive and proves that DLSS 3 works across the entire line-up.

At this seriously competitive end of the market, where every pound spent needs to deliver maximum benefit, the Gigabyte RTX 4060 Windforce OC is too warm and somewhat lacking in performance to be worthy of any recommendation when considering both these cards cost the same amount. Alternatively the ASUS RTX 4060 Dual OC card is faster, and cooler, and thus wins our OC3D Value For Money award.

The Asus Dual RTX 4060 is a great 1080p graphics card at a good price, but there's a catch: Only 8GB of VRAM. This means some games will have problems with stuttering, but on the whole, this is a GPU that will deliver a 60 fps experience in most PC games. DLSS 3.0 is also a welcome new feature that will help stretch those frame rates even further.

The Nvidia RTX 4060 costs just $299, and that low price covers a multitude of compromises. Even with less memory than the previous generation RTX 3060, performance is still good, especially for 1080p gaming, plus it only needs 115W of power.