In-Game Benchmarks

Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 10 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of if turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. In total, each video card is tested 54 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, and then over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors.

So how did the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition do in our general resolution roundups? Well no big surprises in the 1080p results with everything running at or over 60 FPS. A majority of the results were higher than that with 9 over 120 FPS and of course CS:GO was up over 240 FPS as well. Then at 1440p performance drops some with two results under 60 FPS but still, most of the results are smooth with 9 over 60 FPS and 4 over 120 as well and one result up over 240 FPS. Then at 4k things start to slow down with one result in the unplayable under 30 FPS range and most of the results were in the playable but rough 30-59 GPS range with 10 there. From there CS:GO was up over 120 FPS and 4 results were over 60 FPS. Compared to the Dual, the 1080p and 1440p results were exactly the same, and at 4k one result dropped just enough to go under 60 FPS.

Of course, I have all of the actual in game results as well for anyone who wants to sort through the wall of graphs below. I also put together a few averages of the results with CS:GO removed to prevent it from messing up the results with its always-high numbers. This gives us a great look at how the RTX 4060 compares to the last generation Nvidia cards as well as similarly priced cards from AMD. As we have seen in most of our tests so far the 4060 is way out in front of the 3060 but behind the last generation RTX 3060 Ti. The gap between the 3060 and the 4060 gets smaller as the resolution gets higher with it being just 4 FPS at 4k. At 1080p which is the targeted resolution for all of these cards the 4060 is 2 FPS behind the 6650 XT, it does catch up at 1440p and passes it at 4k, not that 4k matters too much in this situation. The RX 7600, AMDs first 1080p 7000 Series card has 5 FPS on the 4060 at 1080p but that gap gets smaller as the resolution goes up and they have the same 50 FPS at 4k. Comparing the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition to the RTX 4060 Dual shows just how close the two cards are once things are averaged out. I ended up having to bring decimals back, the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is exactly .1 FPS faster at 1080p and 4k but the Dual was .1 FPS faster at 1440p, in other words, the small overclock gap between the two is negligible.

	1080p	1440p	4k
RTX 4060 Ti FE	160	115	62
Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE	145	105	59
AMD Radeon RX 7600	141	97	50
MSI RX 6650 XT Gaming X	138	94	43
Zotac RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition	135.7	94.5	50.1
Asus RTX 4060 8GB Dual	135.6	94.6	50.0
Zotac RTX 3060 AMP White Edition	117	83	46