In response to a tweet by resident GPU leaker, Kopite7kimi, the GeForce RTX 4060 (AD106) reportedly delivers a TimeSpy Excessive rating of seven,000 factors. If correct, it will put the GeForce RTX 4060’s efficiency in between the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. Additionally, Kopite7kimi famous that Nvidia’s AD106 and the extra budget-friendly AD107 die would solely have eight PCIe lanes at their disposal as an alternative of 16.
It’s the first time we’ve gotten a TimeSpy Excessive efficiency determine from the {hardware} leaker relating to Nvidia’s RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace) GPUs. AD106 will doubtlessly energy the next-generation RTX 4060 and probably the RTX 4050 Ti (if Nvidia makes one this time).
Kopite7kimi said that the brand new rating isn’t very robust, however we might beg to vary. For reference, the present RTX 3060 has a median TimeSpy Excessive graphics rating of round 4,500 factors to 4,800 factors. So if Kopite7kimi’s knowledge is correct and the RTX 4060 AD106 GPU has a TimeSpy Excessive rating of roughly 7,000, the RTX 4060 is successfully 50% quicker than the RTX 3060.
It will put the AD106 die, or reasonably RTX 4060, at efficiency parity with playing cards just like the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070, which isn’t the mistaken place to be. In response to TimeSpy Excessive alone, the RTX 4060 seems to be a very good improve over the RTX 3060. However that’s the drawback; we solely have the alleged TimeSpy Excessive scores on a GPU that isn’t but out. In order at all times, take this knowledge with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, we’ll say that the RTX 4060’s estimated efficiency appears to be like very correct if historical past repeats itself.
When the RTX 3060 was launched, its efficiency typically outperformed the RTX 2060 Tremendous and RTX 2070 by just a few proportion factors. The RTX 4060 can be doing the identical factor right here, being considerably faster than the RTX 3060, however performing equally to the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070.
PCIe Lane Limitations
Arguably probably the most thrilling half concerning the Tweet is the claims of the AD106 and AD107 getting nerfed to eight PCIe lanes as an alternative of the normal 16. AMD does the identical factor with its entry-level Radeon RX 5000 and mid-range RX 6000 sequence product stack. It will appear that Nvidia will observe swimsuit with the GeForce RTX 40-series.
Assuming Nvidia decides to make use of PCIe 4.0 as an alternative of PCIe 5.0, we do not consider it is going to be an issue on fashionable platforms. For instance, for an RTX 4050 and RTX 4060, a PCIe 4.0 x8 configuration ought to be sufficient and supply sufficient bandwidth for PCIe heavy functions. In any case, PCIe 4.0 x8 options the identical bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x16, and the RTX 2080 Ti – the final GPU to run PCIe 3.0, ran simply fantastic with a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
The one potential challenge with PCIe 4.0 x8 is that older methods are restricted to PCIe 3.0 speeds. It, in flip, will power PCIe 4.0 x8 GPUs to alternate to PCIe 3.0 x8, which is way slower than PCIe 3.0 x16 and PCIe 4.0 x8. Because of this, we might see FPS reductions because of the PCIe bottleneck, however we won’t ensure till we get our palms on Nvidia’s RTX 4050 and RTX 4060.
