Yuzu Devs Tear Apart NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU, Call It A Downgrade For Emulation Due To Cut-Down Memory Config
In a recent progress report, the developers behind the Yuzu emulator criticized NVIDIA for seriously downgrading the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GPU.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launched last month to mixed reviews. Some reviewers including us found it to be a decent offering for its price with a more future-proof feature set such as DLSS 3, faster ray-tracing capabilities, extended support for streamers and content creators, & a powerful AI engine in an efficient design while others referred to it as a bad value when compared to older offerings.
The same case is being made by Yuzu developers who have found the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti to be a serious downgrade for emulation purposes compared to the older GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. It's pointed out that the memory configuration that NVIDIA went for is sub-par and doesn't allow for a very good experience when running emulated games.
The developers point out that when using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti for Switch emulation, you will get slower performance compared to the RTX 3060 Ti due to its narrower 128-bit bus & which means that you either have to stick with older Ampere cards or move to a high-end GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs which seems to be what NVIDIA was initially going after with its RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 situation. The RTX 4090 is seen as the best offering within the NVIDIA RTX 40 stack while the rest of the cards have been a miss so far, mainly due to the price hikes.
Now just like AMD's Infinity Cache, NVIDIA has also equipped its Ada GPUs with more L2 cache. It is proven that a higher cache does contribute to much better performance but it is also very easy to fill up the cache pool when running a resolution scaler. Using a 2x upscale will easily eat up vast pools of
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