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Question RTX 3060 vs 4060 - who wins?

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Perene

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The 3060 has 12 GB of RAM, against 8 from the 4060...

If you could only choose one of them, who would be the better choice?

RTX 3060 Asus Dual O12G V2 NVIDIA GeForce, 12GB GDDR6, LHR, DLSS, Ray Tracing - DUAL-RTX3060-O12G-V2

or

4060 VENTUS 2x Black OC MSI NVIDIA GeForce, 8GB GDDR6, DLSS, Ray Tracing

For example
 
For just gaming, I'd get the 4060. At this end of the market 8GB VRAM really isn't that big of a deal.

Though I would look for a deal on a 3060 Ti or 67x0 XT instead. These can often be found near 4060 pricing, and are faster across the board.
 
Perene said:
If you could only choose one of them, who would be the better choice?
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See those charts? Get a 6700 XT. Failing that, of course 3060 12GB would be better for enjoying better quality textures. If you don't care about quality, 4060 is fine though it still is overpriced and by buying it, you would just embolden nGreedia to push even more overpriced garbage.
 
Heartbreaker said:
Better off getting 3060 Ti/67x0 XT for higher real frame rate than turning on fake FG.
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It works just fine in a number of those games, so no you aren't better off at all. Most people have't gone through a full forum indoctrination where they are taught to hate it despite having never used it, they turn it on, see everything gets significantly smoother and are quite happy.
 
Dribble said:
It works just fine in a number of those games, so no you aren't better off at all. Most people have't gone through a full forum indoctrination where they are taught to hate it despite having never used it, they turn it on, see everything gets significantly smoother and are quite happy.
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I haven't been indoctrinated into anything. I read reviews and looked into how it works and made up my own mind.

Frame Smoothing (what it should really be called) has it's uses, but they are in a limited range, mostly in titles that are CPU limited, or games where reaction time doesn't matter. The poster child for this is MS Flight Simulator, because it's both CPU limited, and not a game were reaction time matters at all.

In games (like shooters) where reaction time matters, turning on Frame Smoothing makes things worse since it increases latency, so you are much better off having the card that delivers a higher real FPS, or turning down some settings or using scaling (FSR/DLSS 2) to increase real FPS.

I'm not against Frame Smoothing, just against misleading marketing that portrays it as equivalent to the real frame rate, which it clearly isn't.
 
Heartbreaker said:
For just gaming, I'd get the 4060. At this end of the market 8GB VRAM really isn't that big of a deal.

Though I would look for a deal on a 3060 Ti or 67x0 XT instead. These can often be found near 4060 pricing, and are faster across the board.
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By that logic, one should save $120 and buy a rx 6600. Why spend more when the cheaper 8GB card will do 1080p just fine for the next 2-3 years.
 
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