I Tried Nvidia's best "Budget" GPU to see if we're Doomed 

The fact that Amazon deliver the graphics card without additional packaging and placed it at the door make this even better. It's bring "Who would steal this sh**" vibe.

don't worry guys, next gen the 5060 will be marketed at 720p instead

Nvidia wrong named it... it's a RTX 4050.

0:57 In regards to the Amazon packaging issue, Amazon has actually made it so that some items are shipped in their bare boxes by default to reduce packaging waste. At the check out, there should be an option ro ship with or without Amazon packaging, and the with packaging option even has in parentheses "hide what's inside". As far as I know this should be free, but results may vary? Make sure you toggle this option when buying valuable/expensive stuff.

The delivery driver knew what he was doing, you can leave that at the door for a month and no one will steal it

For perspective, to those that may be too young to remember. In 2016, AMD Launched the RX 480 and RX 470. It launched along side Battlefield 1, which to this day, looks better, than some AAA games (cough, starfield) and still looks absolutely insane. The RX 470 was MARKETED as a 1080p, 60fps, MAX SETTINGS card in a game that didn't even launch yet, and set the standard for graphics fidelity in first person shooters. The 470 was also capable of getting 60 FPS at 1080p, max settings, in the witcher 3, probably the most demanding title at the time and was barely a year old. The RX 470 cost 179, and the RX 480 cost 199. Accounting for inflation, that would make them 230$ and 260$ respectively. The fact that a card for 299$ can't play a game like atmoic heart or the last of us at 1080p at 60 fps...even with NVIDIAS SUPPORT IN THOSE GAMES. Is sad. Its also sad that the card from the previous generation runs better most of the time... I won't even mention how in 2016 the RX 480 8GB at 230$ was marketed as a 1440p card...before 1440p even went mainstream....... And another problem...is the 3060ti costs around 250$ used....

upgraded from a 1050 Ti to a 4060, and the difference was astounding. I never knew graphics could look this good in games. Additionally, I'm not sure why, but I'm consistently getting over 100fps on most games you've tested on this video, even with ray tracing though needed the frame generation enabled. What really amaze me is that the power consumption is very low

It's not the card issue, its price issue.

now introducing the RTX 5060 with 4GB of VRAM and is recommended for 480p to get 60fps

I WAS IN THAT THREAD! i was assuring to the guy though. told him not to let people get him down cause a new gpu is a new gpu. he was upgrading from something realllllly old anyways, so it was an actual upgrade for him. Plus it was the best he could afford so i just told him to go play and enjoy some games. 45-50 fps isnt optimal, but it is playable for single player. I remember being extremely poor and having to game on systems not meant for it. deleting textures out of game files and still only getting 26 fps... first gaming pc played skyrim at 48 fps and i loved skyrim. played it on that system for years before my first prebuilt. Budget gaming... its allot of compromises. if you dont have the money, sometimes you have to take what you can get. thankfully theres allot of optimizations in the Modder scene. Remember to always dl afterburner and look up oc guides on YT! keep your hardware longer regaurdless of how good/bad it is!

You know what will fix this? Continuing to exclusively buy nvidia products. We deserve this. This is our doing, this is our bed, now we will sleep in it.

RTX 4060 is not bad itself, just don't consider it as an upgrade if you already have anything better than a GTX 1070.

AD107 is a 50-class chip. In fact, all of the 4000 cards (except maybe the "4090") are shifted by 1-2 tiers than they SHOULD be. This entire generation is a major skip.

Super happy you talked about Blender towards the end. I'm curious how the smaller memory bus effects video rendering tho.

Man I gotta say, I love your approach to testing things here. We need more 'average' type people making content about tech and PC gaming

The problem is the price. This should have been a 4050 and priced acordingly. But 3060 level performance for 50% less energy use is kinda crazy!

This was honestly a more understandable and commentary review over this card than tech Jesus and some other RU-vidrs. Keep up the good work!

The raytracing part always gets me. NVIDIA is marketing their cards as RTX so they can mark them up with less backlash, but only their higher end cards are powerful enough to even do it worth a damn.

rtx 4060 is getting old so fast man... i'm happy with my rx 6800 with 16gb vram

5:00 power efficiency man

Basically the improvement from samsung 8nm to tsmc 4nm was huge, but rather than distribute that benefit throughout the lineup they gave the most of it to the high end cards, and used as small of a die size as they could get away with for the lower end cards, to my understanding. The 4060's die size is so small, it wouldn't surprise me if it was actually cheaper to make than the 3060, even being a newer node and all. So the 4060 in the end is like a 60% increase in performance per watt, but not in raw performance. Great video Vex! I enjoy your "conversational" style of videos..

the best part of the 4060 is that it came in a low profile version for itx builds.

this was a nice prospective on the 4060, I felt like it was very insightful instead of just down right bashing the card (which we already know the card isn't a great option). good job on the video! can't wait to see what other content you put out in the future!

I just hope the RTX 5060 is gonna be better... and also having 12GB VRAM at the very least, or my depression are gonna increase

Finally, someone who, instead of insulting and snubbing a product, provides clear and contextualized reasoning.

“It’s a canon event, there is nothing we can do” got me laughing

The one and only thing that I'll give the 40 series lineup kudos for is their power efficiency. Goddamn is it fucking impressive, but I wouldn't doubt it having to do with how small the memory buses are

You could leave this card outside your front door for a week and it'd still be there it sucks that bad

Frame generation mod with 3060 is the final nail in the coffin for the 4060

I picked up the RTX 4060 for my dedicated stream pc, strictly for the NVENC encoder and its ability to encode in AV1. Works great for that particular use case.

Just compare the die size of the 2060 (445mm) to the 4060 (159mm) and that will tell you what you need to know. That doesn’t even include the bus width shrinking as well from 192 to 128 bit. Nvidia took a 4050 and renamed it to a 4060 and jacked up the price. If you bought a 4060 you were tricked and I feel for you.

Upgraded from 1660ti to rtx4060. Rtx3060 was like $310, and rtx4060 at $330 that was within my budget. Rx7600 was priced near $320 lowest but i skipped it because my psu is only 450w. So its not an issue with rtx4060. And rx6700xt was $400 in my country which was significantly over my budget and i would have also needed to upgrade psu for that. So i guess it was a fair choice to go with the rtx4060. I play on 1080p monitor so its not an issue and also run dlss quality mode if the game has good implementation. Can't tell much of a difference unless i really look for it. Sometimes its even better. I played horizon zero dawn and dlss fixed the foliage shimmering that it had with taa.

Nice video dude thanks for sharing the info. I was actually planning on getting a new gaming PC with the RTX 4060 GPU but changed my mind lol. Think I'll go with the RX 6750XT instead or wait for the RX 6800 come down a little bit in price.

Thanks for making things clear,👍 i love my gtx 1060 not upgrading soon. Apparently

Intel ARC A770 16gb is a far better value in my opinion. Bought one in December, and it's been fantastic. No problem running games at ultra settings in 1440p and even full 4k on low to medium settings depending on the game. But I would highly suggest it if you only have $300 for a GPU as it comes in at $299. I get 130+fps a 160hz at 1440p on my Ultrawide LG monitor and 60-80 at 4k 60hz on my TV playing on dayz... will only get better with a higher refresh rate. Don't listen to the nay sayers, these Intel Cards are not bad.

When I saw laptop with 4050 on my local market and also tiny low profile 4060, it instantly flash my mind that Nvidia relegate 50 series to laptop and mobile stuff and 60 series become the new entry level on desktop.

Great video as always Vex, keep it up.

For future Amazon orders, there should be an option to have the product ship in Amazon packaging (they put the box in a box)

128 bit memory bus says everything

your sarcasm is giving me so much life! 🥰🥰

I have a NUC9 Extreme with a 3060 TI 8GB. It gets pretty hot. Occasionally games crash. And there isn't much room in the case for larger cards. Money isn't a huge concern, but I don't want to change the form factor. Do you think it would be worth trying the 4060 TI 16GB?

Just got the following pre built pc: Core i9 11900KF 16 Threads 5.30GHz - GeForce RTX4060 8 GB - 32 GB 3000 MHz DDR4-1 TB M.2 SSD (With win11 pro and 3 year warranty) It cost me 888€. Should I opt for a cheaper PC? If so which one can you recommend? Should I get a 3060 instead or perhaps an AMD variant with 16gb vram? My current model does not support over clocking. What is a great setup to look for if I want to future proof for the next 5 or so years? Thank you

RTX 4060 microstuddering is real and made me hate it instantly. Do not buy it!

as always the problem is the price. the card itself is not bad and if it was 200$ everyone will call it good

texture files are getting bigger every year and gpu manufacturers are cutting vram with every generation. It's mind boggling

I’ve had a great experience with the 4060 ti but u need to know how to choose the best settings for your games and nvidia settings tho, dlss ultra performance resolution scaling and low latency etc. are your friends with games like cyberpunk and rdr2 etc., idk tho I’m new to pc gaming tho so maybe I’m just easily amazed by all this

I got a 4060 for my Plex server. Its been great! Coming from a 1060 6gb using hand break, it was a welcome upgrade.

It's really weird that no one around here seems to mention the Intel Arc A770 which is about the same price now and thanks to matured drivers runs laps around the 4060 in performance and ray tracing and with it's 16GB VRAM scales excellently to any resolution. The only thing that NVIDIA has going for them at that price point is power efficiency, which is not a big concern for gamers.

Productivity and power consumption is the main reason I keep going back and researching about 4060. I love AAA title games. Playing at 1440p with great graphics is more than enough for me. I only wish it was priced at 200-250usd

Your system specs in the description would be nice. Nice vid though!

Lack of competition is major problem.

Vex is now officially in my top 10 fav tech youtubers now

I have a Gainward RTX 4060 and i'm getting a constant 60fps with everything maxed out including path tracing with DLSS quality at 1080p. So I don't know why people are mad about it, it's a pretty good graphics card, I'm only getting 40fps in Dogtown because i'm CPU bottlenecked but everywhere else I can get really good performance, even going to 90fps in the badlands

Bought one for a family members build of old parts I had laying around. Threw it in my system and was pleasantly surprised. I have a 3090 and for most of the games I play, I couldn't tell a difference if I turned off the fps counter. Wish it was cheaper but...

its interesting how people just assume 4060 is a bad gpu cuz its the lowest tier, ive got a 3060 which is a little worse and i play anything i want on it , i used it for 4k 60fps, and now im using it for 1440p 170hz, and if u just lower ur standards and use enough DLSS and play on medium settings, you can play anything even on 4k

17:10 that is fricking amazing

I was on a budget and had rougly 300 to spend and I looked around and saw for 100$ more I could get a Rx 6800 16 gig vram 256 bit bus, for 389.99. best investment I made so far :). I ts even cheaper now but if your on a budget and 400 or even 350 is your limit get a 6800 or even better an Rx 6800 XT. Good luck everyone. P.s Vex you were 1 of the guys that helped me move over to AMD glad I did I really hope they keep making cards in the future.

so my 3060 is dying, and i was considering this or ti. Should i just save a lil more money for a 4070 or wait till the 5000 series? i only play 1080p 240hz, also don’t want an AMD card but open to try if really need to

The 4060 gets allot of hate because it's barely a generational upgrade and is often beat by its last gen model. This card should have been at least 20% to 30% faster in most games.

thats the problem . you compare 3050 to 1650 you see the jump :D, but when you go to 3060 to 4060 you see the scam

Now that the latest 4060 variant has 16Gb VRAM it's so bizarre that the 4070 still only has 12Gb.

hello, serious question as i am noob in PC building world, is AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT good graphic card for at least in range of 300usd? thank you in advance

was able to snag a rtx 4060ti for only $250, at that price point it would be hard to beat. it has been a decent card and defiantly a huge upgrade over the 960ti I had in their previously.

Get a 2080Ti for $220. Got 11GB Vram and everything.

im still happy with my 1080ti which i bought 2018

Ok so let's say I want the major Triple A games ie Cyberpunk Spiderman Remastered on PC at 1920x1080 resolution with the settings on at least high but not ultra and maxed out and I want to keep 60 FPS or more and very rarely if ever drop below 60 what do you recommend? Because I'm in the process of looking for parts to build a computer and I was torn between the 3060 with it's 12gb or the 4060 with it's 8gb which one do you recommend?

random question, but am i miss understanding something?, when i had a 3060 (given it was the Ti version) only had 8gb but the standard one has 12gb, am i not understanding something?

Legendary GTX 1060 to this……thing. Egh.

Amazon is correct: if they show it's a 4060 and nobody gonna steal the package. If is just an Amazon package, they could gamble. lol

I have an I5-8400 and an RX580, I’m considering building an Ryzen 7600 + RTX 4070 for gaming but mostly AI processing. Should I be concerned?

I got a 1050ti atm should i upgrade to 4060 or 3060 bec theyre both almost the same price here ( very expensive atm where i am at) so anny recommendations ? ( Not a hardcore RT enjoyer but i i want to upgrade the visuals and im a pc gamer since childhood

I like your channel. I’m from Latvia 🇱🇻 I personally start build my pc on AMD from 2009, but whit Nvidia graphics cards, before that I build my pc only on Intel and Nvidia. So I build my new pc in 2015 only on AMD, graphics card and cpu, I’m not amd fan boy. But if u want max FPS per $$$, it’s a best choice 😊 P.S. - Sorry for my bad English 😂

17:15 was against 4060 until i saw this. Nice render times

yeah its performance in newer games like alan wake 2 and starfield make it seem like its going to need replacing fast which was probably their goal. it would be a nice upgrade to my 1060 BUT that anemic 8gb is not good when games are starting to push over that.

I'm glad you showed the guy on reddit actually didn't get dunked on by everyone. I've unfortunately seen a number of instances where people have been SUPER excited about a purchase they made or how they just put together their first rig, and absolute sad, unloved trogs just come outta the woodwork with the sole intention of making them feel like absolute garbage for sharing something that they were so genuinely happy about, proud of, and excited for. My night is now saved because of that😌

just got a 1440p external monitor and 4060 laptop recently, loving it so far. I know 8gb vram in modern games might not be enough but just dropping the texture quality fixes vram usage in most cases and lets be honest even if it had higher vram RT would be smoother but still not 60+ fps so realistically no one is going to sacrifice fps for RT that sometimes isn't even that noticeable. I got a great deal on the 4060 and I'm happy.

interesting i have an rtx 4060 w/ ryzen 5 5600x, no issues, love the rtx ai features, i dont play CB2077 but i do play tarkov, siege, pubg, cod wz, and no issues all of them excluding tarkov runs at 144fps locked

if this was a 4050 with the price of a 4050 this could actually be okay EDIT: that's actually what you said lol great video great pacing, fun to watch you get my thumbs up of approval.

I kinda feel the comment "this is $300??" as I recently bought the 4070 Super at a hefty $726 (converted from Norwegian kroner) , and I got the tiny ASUS at 227mm length because I needed it to fit my tiny case. Turned out that while it fits, it really does not and I the dumb power connector stops me from closing the case. I ordered a trick 180 degree adapter and that would make it close, but immediately after I ordered that I decided to upgrade to a big-boy-pants-case to futureproof my upgrade path. But my point here is, that size is not everything, as my 4070 Super is more or less exactly the same size as the 4060 show here, but it is a completely different animal. Would love to see more low profile cards in the 4070 Super type segment as by finagling the PCB layout there is really no reason NOT to have a LP 4070S.

I will consider 4060low profile for sff build, really small one.

4060 is just a badge-creeped 4050ti. Last gen, the real 3060 was the 3060ti, and this gen the real 4060 is the 4070. HOWEVER, if this card was 230-250$ instead of 300-330$, it wouldn’t matter what it’s called because it would’ve been excellent price/perf. It’s effectively a RTX2080 that pulls 115W. This is the best card the SFF market has seen in years. It’s just about 20% overpriced imo.

If this isn't recommended what would you recommend upgrading from a 2060s? Any 40 series? a 30?

What gpu testing software is used in the video?

i just tested cyberpunk and at 1080p RT Overdrive with DLSS -Q and FG i get 70-74 FPS with good latency really good experience

I have 4060, upgraded whole rig from i5-10400 + gtx1650 to i5-12400 + rtx4060. I don't know what you are talking about, for my 30min gaming a week it's awesome 😅

I am currently using an RTX 3060 in my PC. I do everything at 1440p. When I move to upgrade it'll be the 4070 ti SUPER which rests at around the $500-600 mark. I personally never use ray tracing, but games like Breakpoint could definitely use a faster card with more vram.

in india for 300 u get the 3060 ti and rtx 4060 and 6700 non xt for 350 and 6750xt for 390 which one would be better

bro has brass balls positing this here

I think your 4060 has a hardware problem because I have an msi 4060 and in the cyberpunk game in 1080 with high quality and ray tracing medium without path tracing I have about 105 fps

whats the rest of the system specs?

i got my hands on a 4060ti 8GB a few months ago off ebay (sealed) for 300$ (+7$ Shipping) and its ran all the games i play, and its a very nice card in general, mine is also factory OC'd to some extent and on 3D Mark Time Spy i can easily get 13765 points (Model is Colorful Igame 4060ti Ultra 8GB, 3 Fan)

i literally played cyberpunk on ultra settings with max ray tracing and frame gen at 90-100 fps solid, and you know what? the delay isn't even noticeable with reflex enabled. so wow handicapping a card of its specialty seems such a good idea for a fair analysis

coming from a 750ti the 4060 was a great upgrade literally can play anything.

The 4060 holds a special place in my heart. Been with it for a few months now, up from an RX 580. It's serving well enough to hold me until I can get my hands on something tanky. When I retire it, it'll join my RX 580 on a shelf as part of the journey. It's a rough part, but it holds, does the job, and will keep at it with all of its little heart.

What do you think about this GPU paired with Ryzen 5 5600? I only want to play the games at 1080p, I can have a brand new 4060 for 200 EUR (ca 220 USD) in my country. Should i buy it or should i go for RX 6600 for the same price?

im very happy with my purchase, went from my 1060 6gb to a 4060 and i am loving the boost :)

Nvidia: We will give you RT support in our every GPU! Buy only what you have to do, to enjoy full it's potential ( but don't forget to turn our advanced Frame Generation), is to buy our 4090.. Oh you have no money? It's Okey, we have 4060. Yeah, but it ca run Ray Tracing? Of course it can "run"...

Casually says "Alan Walk 2" which is exactly describes the performance of modern "Triple meh" games.

Your excitement and enthusiasm really sells the 4060! 😅💕

the 3060 was the card in my first computer and I gotta say, going into it I thought I should keep my expectations low and not expect crazy good graphics at high fps and I think that's what made the card such a great experience for me. The performance always hit higher than expected and at the end of the day, after completing a hitman mission or a risk of rain run, it truly didn't matter that I was running a last gen budget card because I was having fun.