Gainward GeForce RTX 4060 Ghost, 8GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP

Intels Grafikkarten der Battlemage-Serie alias Arc B580 und B570 verlieren auf kleineren/älteren CPUs mehr Leistung als die direkten Konkurrenten GeForce RTX 4060 und Radeon RX 7600 XT, das haben „CPU-Overhead-Tests“ auf AMD Ryzen gezeigt. Dieser Test mit Intel-Core-CPUs von 4 bis 24 Kernen bestätigt die Probleme.

The Gainward GHOST has MSRP written all over it. Reference performance, and performance within a 1% margin. Consequently, the performance profile of this product mirrors that of the founders edition. However, the Gainward GHOST exhibits commendable capabilities, with reasonable performance in Full HD resolution it performs relatively silent and cool. NVIDIA promoted the product with a predominantly focus on DLSS3, and there was a thought flaw from NVIDIA; supersampling from a lower resolution toward Full HD isn't that good for image quality. That, combined with the fact that frame generation can eat away 10-20% of your VRAM, also makes 8GB a relatively poor choice. It's noticeable that NVIDIA seems to lean more heavily towards DLSS3 and Frame generation technologies. This shift towards AI-centric solutions to boost performance calls for a level of caution. Unfortunately for the 4060 8GB, things aren't looking any different; performance went down, DLSS3 is a bit of a soar point at this resolution, AI Frame generation uses VRAM, and still, this product with a limited 128-bit wide memory bus sits around the $300 marker. This product should have been priced at $199-$249, but unfortunately, we do not make that call, eh? So the pricing of this card is steep, it does offer a reasonable Full HD experience, though. With its 24L2 cache, it assures suitable performance for the given monitor resolution (until that cache dries out of course). DLSS remains debatable, frame generation as its own tech, however, is commendable. Performance variability may be seen in scenarios with less CPU dependence. In the context of ray tracing performance, the RTX 4000 outperforms the Radeon Series 600/7000, suggesting substantial progress in this domain.