Gaming GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GDRR6 Extreme Clock: 2580 MHz 128-Bit HDMI/DP Nvlink TORX Fan 4.0 Ada Lovelace Architecture Graphics Card (RTX 4060 Ti Ventus 2X Black 8G OC)

Pricing aside (I was waiting almost a year for the price to go down to buy another!), this GPU worked great for our use case. It is highly power efficient and we were able to play all of the GPU-necessary games (Jedi Survivor, Star Wars Squadrons, etc) that we were itching to play but couldn't without a GPU. We only have a 1080p monitor, so not looking at 1440p or 4k, and didn't encounter any issues with quality settings. We did get some game-crashing every so often, but I attributed it to software bugs, which I read about in blogs, which doesn't seem specific to our hardware. Our special situation and why this GPU perfectly fit the bill is that we were putting it into a re-purposed (ie received it for minimal price) HP SFF i8700 computer. These have a proprietary PSU that is about 250W, not something you'd think you could stuff a GPU into. With 2 additional purchases from Amazon, a 600mm PCIe riser cable (I pulled the cable out through the CD slot, which I removed, and then plugged the GPU in external to the box, since these SFF cases (yes, I also have a fractal case that mounts full-height sideways, but not this HP) are not designed for modern full-height slot GPUs (unless you spend a fortune on a limited availability last-gen model that fits the half-height slot), AND a power adapter that converts SATA power to 8-pin GPU power. To be clear, the only things plugged into the computer were the bare bones (RAM, 1 M.2 SSD, GPU, monitor, KB (though with LEDs!), mouse, game controller), no spinning drives. This is the situation that should not have worked, but worked beautifully. Power efficiency of this GPU was key.

One of the things consistently overlooked in most 'gamer' reviews of this card is its low power consumption for the performance it delivers. This card is often compared against the older 3060Ti, against which it competes pretty well all around, but the price of this one is a few dollars more. What they never mention is that this card runs about 100watts lower in power consumption. This means you don't need a big power supply and less cooling is needed. Not everyone buys a graphics card with maximum gaming speed as the sole criteria. In my case I needed to update a 10-year old machine that was running a GTX 660Ti - yes that old. I don't do much PC gaming but I do run a lot of creator related apps, like Autodesk Fusion 360, and Davinci Resolve. I needed to upgrade in order to run current CAD and video editing software reliably. The 4060Ti only needs a single PCIE power connector and its power consumption was no higher than my old card. This old PC also is running an i7-3770K, which is power hungry compared to current processors, and I was wary about adding to the PS load further. So the 4060Ti let me update graphics performance by an order of magnitude without needing to spend money on a bigger power supply or raise my electricity bill. The performance boost was very good. The PCMARK 10 benchmark of this computer was raised from 3286 with the old 660Ti to 4005 by just changing to the 4060Ti. Not stellar, but enough to keep this 10-year old computer faster than 25% of the currently benchmarked machines out there. Graphics scores were almost 10X faster, but an old SATA HDD is still holding the machine back. And now my problems with creativity software performance have been eliminated.

This card has become the subject of much controversy online from diehard gamers, with many pointing to the VRAM and the value for money in particular. I'm not a power user trying to play Cyberpunk 2077 on ultra 4K, nor am I too focused on benchmark numbers. However, I believe there is a niche for people who will find value in this GPU for the pricepoint, and those who buy it are either on a budget or know exactly what performance they want. I upgraded from an ASUS RTX 2060 Dual OC, which 2 years ago during the crypto mining frenzy I paid the exact same price as I did for this 4060 Ti. The 2060 was already plenty of performance for me, so I would not spend more money than this on power I won't use. I'm not here to preach to anybody about the value for money, but I personally just think the hate is overblown. It's a good card for a good price, but nothing more than that.

This graphics card installed and worked perfectly fine in my PC. No issues thus far. The thermals are also quite good. By default, the fan curve has a 0db option (the fan turns off when not under load), which makes this card very quiet. The sound is noticable when at higher speeds (like 75-90%), but in a well cooled case, the card does not generate enough heat to reach those speeds. I had to manually edit the fan curve to hear it at full speed. MSI Afterburner didn't work amazingly for this card. For some reason, I couldn't get the OC Scanner to run without giving me, "unstable" results. Everything else worked fine though (including manual overclocking). I'm not sure why this card is advertised as working with MSI Afterburner when some features simply don't work. This likely isn't the fault of the card itself, however, and probably a flaw in the Afterburner software.

Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with this card. I got this for a recent budget minded build for my fiance, who's not much of a gamer but needed a system for school and really wanted to play baldurs gate 3, and for those purposes this card is a standout. Cooling is decent, it's a pretty compact card and performance impressed me overall. I have this paired with a ryzen 5600 and 32 GB of ddr4, so a decent last gen system, and it gets consistent 60 fps+ at high/ultra settings at 1080p in BG3. The biggest issue of course is the performance to cost comparison, especially against previous generations. If you're coming from an existing setup with an older card, I think you would get more value overall spending your money on a more substantiative upgrade, even just a tier up at the 4070 level. But if you're building from scratch and just need a decent card that doesn't break the bank, or have severe size / power limitations, I think this card is a decent solution.

Worked great for new computer

This is the second one we purchased and really like the MSI brand. Easy to install. The GPU works very well. Very reliable.

Great product. Got it early too