Concerning Nvidia’s RTX 4060, we’ve not heard a lot on the grapevine about this GPU, however now an in depth rumor has come by for the graphics card – although we’d deal with a few of this with extra skepticism than regular.

As flagged up by @harukaze5719, a daily contributor to {hardware} leaks on Twitter, this purportedly comes from Lenovo’s Gaming Desktop Product Planning Supervisor in China, a sure ‘Wolstame’ who shares information on the efficiency and launch date of the RTX 4060 through Weibo (opens in new tab). (Hat tip to VideoCardz (opens in new tab) for recognizing this, by the way in which).

Wolstame: Lenovo China Gaming Desktop Product Planning Supervisor pic.twitter.com/cnuHAMYcf4November 17, 2022

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And when you have been pondering this extra inexpensive Lovelace GPU was shut at hand, then assume once more – though the shortage of hypothesis up to now across the graphics card form of tells its personal story in that regard.

In keeping with Wolstame, the RTX 4060 will arrive on ‘618’ which refers to June 18, 2023, the date of a significant purchasing pageant over in China.

As to the rumored efficiency, Wolstame makes it fairly clear that they’re simply guessing, however that we should always count on one thing within the ballpark of the RTX 3070. On the identical time, they point out the 4060 being 20% sooner than the RTX 3060, which doesn’t equate to a 3070, falling a good bit brief – so this a part of the rumor is slightly a head-scratcher (apply a ton of additional seasoning, in different phrases).

Energy consumption will supposedly be decrease than the RTX 3060 at maybe as little as 150W.

Value-wise, the RTX 4060 shall be across the identical asking value because the RTX 3060 Ti, the leaker asserts – at the very least that’s how we learn it (a number of the phrasing and translation leaves room for doubt).

If we’re going by advisable pricing, the RTX 3060 Ti is pitched at $399 over within the US for its MSRP (£369 within the UK).

Evaluation: Nothing inexpensive on the horizon for Lovelace, then?

Probably the most attention-grabbing a part of this rumor is that launch date, and presumably June 2023 could be the launch goal not only for the Chinese language market, however elsewhere globally.

That’s nonetheless seven months away, so shall be a disappointing blow to these people who might need been hoping for an RTX 4060 sooner slightly than later. For now – if this rumor is correct – it appears to be like like we’re going to be caught with the top-end RTX 4080 and 4090, after which maybe an RTX 4070 Ti (which is alleged to be the beforehand ‘unlaunched’ RTX 4080 12GB, in fact).

Value-wise, we’re not banking on the RTX 4070 Ti being all that fairly priced, notably not if you take a look at the value tags pinned on the RTX 4080 fashions. So inexpensive Lovelace GPUs don’t seem like remotely on the horizon, briefly – the one hope is that we do get a vanilla RTX 4070 earlier than too lengthy, and that is pitched in a extra affordable vein price-wise. For the second, although, Nvidia seems to be firmly pursuing a ‘layered’ technique we heard speak of some time again, the place people in search of a less expensive graphics card are merely being pushed to purchase an RTX 3000 mannequin (as there’s nonetheless an extra of inventory with these).

Certainly, that is what Wolstame suggests – the leaker appears fairly down on the prospects for the RTX 4060, so slightly than wait a very long time for the GPU to show up, Wolstame advises shopping for an Ampere mannequin (RTX 3080, in actual fact – although the RTX 3070 is supposedly the efficiency equal of the RTX 4060).

Talking of that purported efficiency, it’s couched by way of an absolute guess – and confusingly put throughout, as Wolstame seems to be making two completely different guesses, in actual fact, – so general, we expect it’s seemingly method too early doorways to be drawing even any obscure conclusions in regards to the energy of the RTX 4060.

That stated, it’s value noting that the RTX 4060 goes to get the advantage of DLSS 3, so for some video games, that may actually up its efficiency ranges in comparison with RTX 3000 fashions. (Presumably Wolstame is speaking rasterized efficiency, too, though that isn’t made clear – so ray tracing positive aspects may very well be extra substantial for the RTX 4060 as properly).

For now, then, let’s deal with this rumor dump with the warning it actually deserves, however we are able to’t say we’re stunned to listen to that the RTX 4060 may nonetheless be a good distance off – though admittedly, we weren’t pondering fairly as far-off as subsequent June. Time will inform.

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