Synthetic Benchmarks
As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. In this case with the Asus Dual RTX 4060 8GB we don’t have another 4060 to compare it with. But I am interested in seeing how it compares to the 3060, 3060 Ti, and the 4060 Ti from Nvidia. Then from AMD the 7600, 6700XT, 6700, and 6650XT which are all in that same price range.
The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The Dual RTX 4060 scored a 28038 on the base Fire Strike benchmark putting it in below the 6650 XT and 3060 Ti but 5253 points in front of the RTX 3060. The extreme and ultra Fire Strike tests were similar but the 6650XT did edge out a little more in front in the ultra test.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. Time Spy is DX12 focused and Nvidia’s cards are known to perform a little better here and we can see that with the Dual RTX 4060 which was behind the 6650XT in Fire Strike sitting ahead of in both Time Spy tests. The Dual RTX 4060 was just a few points behind the RX 7600 in both as well.
I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is their latest benchmark. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines in more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until now 3DMark has only used in feature tests. The Dual RTX 4060 did much better here with it sitting out in front of the RX 6750 XT but there is still a big gap between the Dual RTX 4060 and the RTX 3060 Ti. Overall though, at least compared to the AMD cards this shows Nvidia’s focus on ray tracing performance even in cards like the RTX 4060.
The last test was using the Unigine-based Superposition benchmark and I tested at 1080p with the extreme detail setting as well as the 4K optimized setting. In the extreme detail setting the Dual RTX 4060 and the RX 6650 XT are right with each other, switching to the 4K test however had the Dual RTX 4060 out in front of the 6650XT and the RX 7600. The 3060 Ti is still out in front of both by a good margin, however.
