9 games at 1440p, 72 FPS on average, anchored estimate · solid 60+ FPS 1440p gaming, with headroom in lighter titles
72 Avg FPS Includes estimates
These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, GeForce RTX 4060 averages 72 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 114 FPS; the floor is Cyberpunk 2077 at 45 FPS, a 2.5x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means solid 60+ FPS 1440p gaming, with headroom in lighter titles. Under load we logged a peak of 110W against the 115W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 45 FPS | 36 | 6.75 GB | 109 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 63 FPS | 49 | 6.57 GB | 107 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 48 FPS | 40 | 7.36 GB | 106 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 92 FPS | 75 | 7 GB | 110 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 97 FPS | 62 | 5.29 GB | 109 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 114 FPS | 62 | 7.13 GB | 92 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 80 FPS | 61 | 7.36 GB | 108 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 61 FPS | 45 | 7.36 GB | 99 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 52 FPS | 44 | 7.05 GB | 109 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace |
| CUDA cores | 3,072 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR6 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 272 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 2,490 MHz |
| TDP | 115 W |
| Process | 4nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Release date | 2023-06-29 |
| Launch MSRP | $299 |
GeForce RTX 4060 averages 72 FPS at 1440p on our suite. These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #42 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT | 107% | 77 | |
| NVIDIA TITAN V | 106% | 76 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER | 103% | 74 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT | 101% | 73 | |
| GeForce RTX 4060 | 100% | 72 | |
| Intel Arc B580 | 99% | 71 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT | 97% | 70 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti | 97% | 70 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 | 96% | 69 |
Same card, other workloads: GeForce RTX 4060 AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 18,900 million |
| Die size | 158.7 mm² |
| Process node | 4 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 119.1 million per mm² |
Denser than 92% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B).
This card is $299 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.078/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.094/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 3,194 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $68 | 4.4 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $273 | 1.1 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $820 | 4.4 months |
At steady usage this card pays for itself inside a normal ownership window. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.