Introduction
Let’s say you purchased a $399 MSRP GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER in 2019, and you want to purchase a new upgrade in 2023 for around the same MSRP. That new upgrade would be the $399 MSRP GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB in 2023. You are probably asking yourself, what kind of a performance upgrade are you actually going to get after four years if you upgrade straight from a GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER to the new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti?
In this performance comparison review today, we are going to directly review the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER versus GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and find out how 2019’s midrange compares to 2023’s midrange at the same price point. Let’s find out how much of an upgrade the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti really brings versus the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER. If you want to know how the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti compares to the previous generation GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, be sure to check out our full review on that as well. All benchmarks today are freshly updated in August of 2023 on both video cards, with the latest drivers, and game versions.
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Specs
| GeForce RTX 4060 Ti | GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Turing |
| Fab Processes | 4nm TSMC 4N | 12nm |
| CUDA Cores | 4352 | 2176 |
| RT Cores | 34 (3rd Gen) | 32 |
| Tensor Cores | 136 (4th Gen) | 272 |
| ROPs | 64 | 64 |
| TMUs | 136 | 136 |
| Base Clock | 2310MHz | 1470MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2535MHz | 1650MHz |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
| VRAM Clock | 18GHz | 14GHz |
| VRAM Bus | 128-bit / 288GB/s | 256-bit / 448GB/s |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TDP/TBP | 160W | 175W |
| Launch MSRP | $399 | $399 |
| Launch Date | 5/24/2023 | 7/9/2019 |
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER was announced on July 2nd, 2019, and launched on July 9th, 2019 as a refresh to the then-current GeForce RTX 20 series of GPUs based on the Turing architecture. The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER launched at $399, the same as the new GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB video card in 2023. It is important to note, the Turing architecture was NVIDIA’s first consumer GPU to support Ray Tracing and have Tensor Cores. This is the generation of GPU that introduced these technologies to gamers, thus they have the first generation Ray Tracing cores, and the first consumer Tensor Core generation with DLSS support.
The GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER was built on the 12nm TSMC process and has 2,176 CUDA Cores, 32 RT Cores, 272 Tensor Cores, 64 ROPs, and 136 TMUs with 4MB of L2 cache. It operates with a Boost Clock of 1650MHz and has 8GB of GDDR6 at 14GHz on a 256-bit bus providing 448GB/s of memory bandwidth. It has a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface and 175W TDP.
By contrast, the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti was launched on May 24th, 2023 continuing the new GeForce RTX 40 series of GPUs based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launched at $399 MSRP, the same as the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER did back in 2019. With the new Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti uses Ray Tracing and Tensor cores two generations ahead of where the GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER was. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti uses 3rd generation RT Cores and 4th generation Tensor Cores. Due to this fact, the performance per core is higher, and thus it can utilize less, yet provide more performance. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti also adds faster and more accurate Tensor Cores that allow better optical flow acceleration enabling DLSS 3 Frame Generation.
The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is built on TSMC 4N process and has 4,352 CUDA Cores, 34 3rd Generation RT Cores, 136 4th Gen Tensor Cores, 64 ROPs, and 136 TMUs with a much larger 32MB L2 cache size. It operates with a Boost Clock of 2535MHz and has 8GB of GDDR6 at 18GHz on a 128-bit bus providing 288GB/s of memory bandwidth. The memory bandwidth is quite cut down, though the L2 cache has increased quite a bit. It has a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface, which puts it as the same PCIe bandwidth as the RTX 2060 SUPER, and a lower 160W TDP.