Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU rumours suggest it's worse than the laptop variant of the same chip
I'm getting the fear about the next generation of mid-range graphics cards. The latest rumours surrounding the specs of the upcoming RTX 4060 GPU are pretty meagre, to say the least. Regularly reliable leaker, kopite7kimi(opens in new tab), has listed the expected specifications of the AD107 chip at the heart of the RTX 4060 and they seem to almost be a like-for-like match with the mobile version of the same GPU.
Except a tiny bit worse.
The leaker has listed the core configuration as just 3,072 CUDA cores, while the upcoming RTX 4070 is expected to come with near double that figure(opens in new tab). The current rumoured config has the RTX 4070 sporting the same AD104 GPU as the RTX 4070 Ti(opens in new tab) model, but with 5,888 CUDA cores.
Personally, I'd have hoped Nvidia would drop the RTX 4060 onto the AD106 GPU, and get close to the core count of the mobile RTX 4070 at 4,608. And yes, I agree, it's getting confusing talking across mobile and desktop chips with the same damned name but completely different specs.
But that doesn't mean I'm down with Nvidia now reportedly sticking to the same specs for its mobile and desktop versions of the RTX 4060. That actually makes me a bit sad for how this mainstream card is actually going to perform in the real world. On the plus side, there have been leaked performance numbers for a laptop running the full RTX 4060 at 140W(opens in new tab), and the good news there is that the mobile version seems to be running beyond the gaming levels of the 12GB RTX 3060(opens in new tab) on the desktop.
The delta is 17% in some games, but just 5% in others. So still not a large increase for the mobile chip.
RTX 4060 still uses PG190. AD107-400-A13072FP328G GDDR6 18Gbps115W24M L2I will
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