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Slowly but surely, information and rumors about Nvidia’s mid-range graphics cards from the Ada Lovelace generation are piling up.
The announcement of the Geforce RTX 4070 is next on the agenda, but there are already a few bits of information about the slightly weaker RTX 4060 Ti. The latest of these give us a first indication of what performance to expect.
Clock frequencies provide information about teraflops
T4C Fantasy from TechPowerUp already wants to know how high the base and boost clock frequency of the Geforce RTX 4060 Ti will be. So the values look like this:
- Base Clock Speed: 2.310 MHz
- Boost Clock Frequency: 2.535 MHz
- Board partners premium cards: Up to 2685MHz
If this data is correct, the RTX 4060 Ti has the same base clock frequency as the RTX 4070 Ti, but with a 75 MHz lower boost.
Based on the clock frequency and the number of shader cores, you can calculate how many teraflops the RTX 4060 Ti will have. This is a unit of measure for the theoretical computing power of graphics cards.
The value of the RTX 4060 would increase based on these rumors 22.1 teraflops. This is how it compares to the other RTX 4000 graphics cards and the current consoles:
| Shader Core | (Boost) clock rate | Teraflops | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geforce RTX 4090 | 16.384 | 2.520 MHz | 82,6 |
| Geforce RTX 4080 | 9.728 | 2.508 MHz | 48,8 |
| Geforce RTX 4070 Ti | 7.680 | 2.610 MHz | 40,1 |
| Geforce RTX 4070 | 5.888 | 2.475 MHz | 29,1 |
| Geforce RTX 4060 Ti | 4.352 | 2.535 MHz | 22,1 |
| Playstation 5 | 2.304 | 2.233 MHz | 10,3 |
| Xbox Series X | 3.328 | 1.825 MHz | 12,1 |
| Xbox Series S | 1.280 | 1.565 MHz | 4 |
Teraflops are not equal to teraflops
The amount of teraflops indicates how many floating point operations can be performed per second. Simply put, the higher the number, the higher the GPU’s raw performance.
Since the boost clock rate is used for the calculation, the number of teraflops may be higher for some board partners, as they are often overclocked.
Now one could quickly assume that the RTX 4060 Ti is about twice as powerful as the Playstation 5 – but this calculation doesn’t look that simple.
It should be noted that teraflops alone are not enough to determine the real performance in applications and games. How many FPS you can achieve in a game or how good it can look depends on other factors such as memory bandwidth, memory size, architecture, drivers and the rest of the hardware.
With consoles, all components are matched to one another, which is why better performance values can also be achieved with lower teraflop numbers. A direct comparison is also not possible in this case because the current consoles use hardware from AMD and not from Nvidia.
You can find out more about teraflops, what exactly they are and why they are important (or less important) in our info article on this topic:
RTX 4060 Ti: release date and price
A release date for the RTX 4060 Ti does not yet exist, but initial indications from Nvidia’s partners suggest that it could be launched in May. The price is still unknown, but currently some sources assume that it could be around 500 dollars.
Previously suspected specs for the RTX 4060 Ti
| SKU | PG190 |
| architecture | There’s TSMC 4N |
| GPU | AD106-350 |
| CUDA Core | 4.352 |
| base clock speed | 2.310 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2.535 MHz |
| Teraflops | 22,1 |
| Storage | 8.0 GB GDDR6 |
| memory bus | 128-bit |
| memory bandwidth | 288 GByte/s |
| TGP | 160 Watt |
| PCIe-Version | Gen4 x8 |
Before the RTX 4060 Ti appears, the RTX 4070 without Ti addition is expected first. It should come onto the market in mid-April at a price of around 750 dollars. You can count on tests on GameStar.de for both models.
Will the RTX 4060 Ti be your next graphics card and what do you think the price will be? Have you ever considered teraflops as a relevant selling point for a graphics card or console? Feel free to write it in the comments!
