RTX and DLSS

Being an RTX card I also like checking out the performance of some of Nvidia’s features. Namely the ray tracing performance and the performance improvements you can see by using DLSS combined with the tensor cores. My first test goes back to our synthetic benchmarks with 3DMark where I check out their Port Royal benchmark. This is the one test that does also have AMD Ray Tracing support which is great to get a look at how different cards including older non-RTX cards perform. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is 15 points behind the Dual here which fits with their overclocks. Both cards are well out in front of the RX 7600 here with the 6750XT the next card above them.

      3DMark also has added in a few feature tests, one being a look at DLSS performance. For this one, I have the resolution set to 4K and I test with all three versions of DLSS as well as with it off completely. All DLSS are set to their performance setting as well to keep the results comparable. This gives us a great look at the performance improvements that DLSS has given with DLSS 3 also including frame generation. The RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is just behind the Dual RTX 4060 in each test, which it should be having a slightly lower overclock. Both cards show the performance improvements DLSS can get you going from 12 FPS up to 49 when using DLSS with frame generation.

I then jumped into game tests, this time with Watch Dogs: Legion. For this one, I wanted to get an idea of the performance you will see when taking advantage of Nvidia’s RTX and DLSS features. I tested at 4k with the ultra detail setting and with ultra being the setting for DLSS and RTX when they are on as well. I then test with no RTX or DLSS on and then with RTX DLSS on and off and on together. Here the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition and the Dual RTX 4060 have the same RTX and no RTX or DLSS results but the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition is one FPS behind in the two other results. This test does a good job showing how DLSS can improve performance when needed, especially as a way to also be able to use RTX where when using RTX without DLSS dropped performance from 32 FPS down to 16 FPS.

Next, I wanted to check out the performance in Metro Exodus which we have used for testing for a long time now. This test is similar as well with it set to 4K and Ultra detail, I use the included benchmark to test DLSS and RTX individually and then with them both on and both off to give us a look at overall frame rates depending on which direction you go. I should point out that this is using the Enhanced Edition where our normal benchmark uses the standard version for testing with AMD but that version DLSS no longer works. That said the RTX 4060 Twin Edge OC White Edition edged out the Asus Dual RTX 4060 by a small amount here. This is another good example of how DLSS can make RTX gaming possible, especially when running resolutions as high as this on a card not designed for that resolution.