Nvidia Is Launching Its Affordable RTX 4060 Earlier Than Expected
pcmag.comIf you’ve been waiting for Nvidia’s RTX 4060 graphics card, there’s good news: The product will arrive later this month, instead of July.
The company announced(Opens in a new window) the news on Twitter and updated the RTX 4060 website(Opens in a new window) with the new launch date. The graphics card will be available on Thursday, June 29, starting at 6 a.m. PST.
The RTX 4060 will be the most affordable entry in the RTX 4000 series. Prices start at $299, or $100 less than the RTX 4060 Ti, another midrange desktop GPU that launched last month.
According to Nvidia, the RTX 4060 feature more computing horsepower over the RTX 3060 for a 20% performance increase when the DLSS 3 and ray-tracing are disabled in the new card.
But on the downside the RTX 4060 offers less bandwidth than its predecessor. Specifically, the RTX 4060 comes with a128-bit memory interface, down from the 192-bit interface in the RTX 3060. When we asked about the bandwidth disparity, Nvidia said the RTX 4060 is equipped with far more L2 cache. Stay tuned for our review when we can really put the card to the test.
Nvidia didn’t explain why it moved up the launch date, though this change gives the company a few extra days or weeks to tally sales in its fiscal second quarter, which ends July 31.
Supply for its existing RTX 4000 GPUs remains plentiful, signaling low consumer demand. It's been so weak that the Founders Edition model RTX 4060 Ti was in stock on Best Buy during its launch day last month when previous Founders Edition units sold out almost instantly.
Jon Peddie Research adds(Opens in a new window) that desktop GPU shipments hit a historic low in Q1 due to vendors and retailers trying to clear out existing inventory for graphics cards. “We
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