Nvidia’s RTX 4060 launches at the end of the month – so the current price cuts in the entry-level graphics card market seem to be absolute carnage, so much so that we’re even seeing the mighty RTX 3060 Ti for under £300. Meanwhile, with the RTX 3060 – the most popular GPU in the world – now selling for well under £300/$300 according to the Steam Hardware Survey, the Intel Arc A750 is priced to offer some very good value, while the above Generation AMD RDNA 2 cards are so cheap, which creates problems for the new RDNA 3 powered RX 7600.
So, originally, this post was planned as a review of the RX 7600, but the more I read about the GPUs around the market, and the more I saw the level of price reduction involved, the more I realized how complex this topic is. The Radeon RX 7600 doesn’t get great reviews, but it’s actually a pretty solid piece of hardware. The problem is that the big price cuts on older cards make their value proposition look less compelling – I’m curious if that will have an impact on the upcoming RTX 4060 too, given its own generation-on-gen performance boost It sounds relatively mild.
In addition to price cuts, other As the benchmark results coalesced, stories began to emerge. Intel’s Arc A750 and A770 are actually pretty good products when it comes to running modern games — and some (limited-time) price cuts of Intel’s own translate into fantastic value. The Arc A750 retails for £230/$250 – but as you’ll see over the next few pages, the price-to-performance ratio (especially in RT-heavy gaming) is off the charts for the RTX 4060 Ti Looks seriously overpriced. So, in addition to looking at the highly volatile graphics market, this article serves as a fresh look at the Intel Arc.
There’s a lot of data in the next few pages but it’s likely some nuance is lost in the numbers so do consider watching the video above as I try to thread the needle through a patchwork of competing factors as I consider what’s going on in the graphics market Buy a new GPU on the low end. However, one thing I want to emphasize is that it’s actually very hard to find a slam dunk final buy ahead of the rest of the league. What you get is a selection of relatively strong cards.
Keep in mind that when we talk about the concept of a “1080p GPU”, we’re talking about a maximum preset of 1080p, which means optimized settings can also make 1440p possible. The availability of upgrades – especially valid for hardware acceleration options for DLSS and XeSS – means that even the RTX 3060 12GB can deliver a 4K 60fps experience with tweaked settings. The DLSS performance mode looks the part and the performance is undeniable.
I think my overall takeaway is that all three vendors have good recommendations at very good prices (and will likely be lower once the RTX 4060 actually launches) so I’m trying to provide my various recommendations at the end of the article, biased towards you priorities, whether it’s direct rasterization performance, RT, or upscaling. However, it makes sense to wait for Nvidia to give us the RTX 4060 — unless its 8GB of framebuffer memory is an instant deal-breaker for you.
Having said that, let’s take a look at the benchmark range we put together. First of all this is the basis for the upcoming RTX 4060 review (we’ll be adding more cards to it including the likes of the RTX 2060 and GTX 1060) so it’s based on our usual test station, based on an Intel Core i9 13900K stock setup, Running on ASUS Maximus Hero Z690 motherboard with two 16GB GSkill 6000MT/s memory modules.
1080p GPU Wars
- introduce [This Page]
- RT Benchmarks: Dying Light 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Control
- RT Benchmarks: Hitman 3, Metro Exodus Enhanced, F1 22
- RT/DLSS/FSR2/DLSS3 benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2, Forza Horizon 5
- Gaming Benchmarks: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 22, Forza Horizon 5
- Game benchmarks: Hitman 3, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Returnal
- Conclusions and Recommendations
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