Overall and Final Verdict
The last ZOTAC GAMING card that I had in, their RTX 4070 Amp Airo was a great looking card so I was excited to get the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition in to see what it looked like and I wasn’t disappointed. The overall design is similar to the Amp Airo other than being a shorter 2-fan design and not having the same addressable RGB lighting hidden on the top like the Airo had. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition on the other hand is also a white edition card and taking the curvy design and changing everything to bright white looks great. They even changed the fan center caps to aluminum which better matches the card and avoids the yellowing that we had with our white RTX 3060 from ZOTAC GAMING. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is an overclocked card as well, but I was surprised to find out that its overclock was a little lower than the MSRP-priced Asus RTX 4060 Dual that Nvidia sent over for the launch.
The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition also went a different direction with its cooler design using an old-school machined aluminum heatsink rather than the sheet metal fin design that most heatsinks and coolers use. Going with the older design meant that the design didn’t have a blow-through design like most cards that are longer than the PCB which the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is. It also didn’t fully utilize the extra space beyond the end of the PCB, so much so that I have to wonder if they couldn’t have gone a little shorter and made this an ITX form factor single fan card without losing much in cooling capabilities. Even still, the older cooler design ended up not being too important. While running warmer than the Dual, because of the RTX 4060’s overall power efficiency the card still ran more than cool enough. The design did end up affecting noise levels which like with the cooling were still good, but not as good as the Dual design, especially at higher fan speeds.
Overall performance of the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition was right on par with the RTX 4060 Dual that I tested yesterday. This means that its 1080p performance was solid, 1440p was still capable even though the card wasn’t designed for it. Ray tracing and DLSS performance were also great. But once you start comparing the performance against the similarly priced or sometimes lower priced AMD cards, the raster (non-DLSS or ray tracing) performance was still behind cards like the RX 6650 XT and the RX 7600. The 4060 does make some of that up with DLSS and ray tracing in the tests and games that support it, but Nvidia is relying on that a little more than they should. Their supported game list is growing quickly, which helps, but chances are it is still going to be hit-and-miss. I mentioned it in our previous review, but I was really hoping to see the RTX 4060 perform right with the RTX 3060 Ti and except for a few RTX and DLSS tests, it doesn’t. There is a performance increase over the RTX 3060 so for users who were looking at the 3060 as a possibility the 4060 may be the better option. Unless you are planning on running a lot of emulation which may still perform better with the 3060’s higher VRAM. Overall I would expect past Nvidia owners who are looking for an upgrade to still be looking at the RTX 4060. But people who are looking closer at the performance between the competing AMD cards are more likely o go that direction unless their favorite games are going to have DLSS/RTX.
For pricing the MSRP of the RTX 4060 is $299 and the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition isn’t an MSRP card. ZOTAC GAMING has it priced at $329.99 which is where you would expect an overclocked card to be. But the RTX 4060 Dual that Nvidia sent over that is at the MSRP ended up having an overclock too which was even a few MHz faster. The Dual also has a better cooler design that is admittedly overkill, but it does make the premium that ZOTAC GAMING is asking for the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition hard to swallow. You do get the backlit logo up on top and a great looking white design which would make it a great option if priced at the same price as the Dual. I hope they consider dropping it down to compete. Especially once you see the RX 7600 options in the $269 range which make even the base MSRP of the RTX 4060 a tough one.
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