Ada Lovelace lineup will also include the RTX 4070, which is rumored to debut in April. The RTX 4060 is expected to be the fifth card in the RTX 4000 lineup after the RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, 4080, and 4090.
While not much was known about the RTX 4060 until now, a leak has offered gamers an understanding about what to expect from the graphics card. According to prolific hardware leaker Kopite7kimi, the RTX 4060 will be based on the smallest Ada Lovelace GPU — the AD107. The mobile version of the RTX 4060 is also based on the same GPU, and both will come with the full 3072 CUDA cores. In addition, the desktop version of the card will also ship with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM at 18Gbps. Curiously, this will be lower than the amount of VRAM in the RTX 3060 that ships with 12GB of memory.
NVIDIA RTX 4060 Specifications
The decreased VRAM could be a cause for concern, given the increasing appetite for memory in modern games. As for the rest of the tech specs, the card will have an estimated power consumption of 115W, as well as 24MB of L2 cache. If the rumored specs turn out to be accurate, the desktop version of the RTX 4060 will be similar to its laptop counterpart in more ways than one, as both the shader count and the power draw will be identical in the two cards.
As things stand, the only differences between the two could be the memory clock and the memory bus. In the first case, the mobile 4060 has 16Gbps memory, which is slower than the rumored 18Gbps for the desktop version. Secondly, the 24MB of L2 cache suggests only a 96-bit memory bus, which would be lower than the 128-bit bus in the laptop version. It's not immediately clear if the discrepancy suggests an error in the leaked spec sheet or if NVIDIA will indeed launch the desktop version with lower memory bus than the laptop variant.
Either way, the RTX 4060 is expected to be one of the mainstays in NVIDIA's RTX 4000 lineup, as it's likely to be priced in a sweet spot that should make it desirable for most mainstream gamers. It doesn't have a release date yet, but will likely launch after the RTX 4070 debuts in April. Meanwhile, the mobile RTX 4060 is releasing in late Feb., so it will be interesting to see how long the company will take to launch the desktop version of the card.
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