Price increases have been the name of the game for Nvidia’s RTX 40-series cards so far, but the introduction of the RTX 4060 family attempts to reverse course.
The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB comes in at $399, matching the retail price of the 3060 Ti, while the 4060 Ti 16GB costs $100 more. But the RTX 4060 is where the real value’s at this time around. It will retail in July for just $299, undercutting the previous-gen RTX 3060 by $30 and the RTX 2060 by $50. It hasn’t been since the GTX 1060 Founders Edition launched in 2016 that we’ve seen prices this low.
Now on the surface, that might not sound like a huge deal. But it’s pretty dramatic considering the price hikes on Nvidia’s high-end GPUs this year like the RTX 4090 and the increasing cost of just about everything in the world right now.
The $299 price of the RTX 3060 also gets it closer to what Intel is offering with the $289 Arc A750. Both have 8GB of VRAM, but Nvidia’s ray tracing and DLSS features are easily worth $10 these days.
Of course, how the RTX 4060 performs will ultimately determine if it’s worth the price. I’m not expecting a huge jump in raw performance over the RTX 3060 — after all, in terms of shaders, the RTX 4060 can only produce two more TLOPs (trillion floating-point operations per second) than its predecessor. That’s even slightly behind the RTX 3060 Ti.
The gen-over-gen gains on the RTX 4060 Ti seem more in impressive by comparison. Like in the 30-series, the difference in performance between the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti looks to be significant.
On average, however, Nvidia expects a 20% jump in performance for the RTX 4060 over the RTX 3060 and a 70% jump over the RTX 2060. The chart below shows a handful of games tested at the highest settings, which include maxed-out ray tracing and DLSS.
Let’s not forget — the RTX 4060 has 4GB less VRAM than the RTX 3060 too. The increased L2 cache might make up for some of that difference, but the lack of VRAM is certainly making some nervous. But with $200 separating the RTX 4060 and the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti, that’s not an easy decision to make.
But the strength of Nvidia’s cards these days is more about RTX and AI than just raw power. The bump to 3rd-gen RT cores and 4th-gen Tensor cores, along with DLSS 3 frame generation, make the RTX 4060 more than meets the eye — at least, according to Nvidia. When you throw in frame generation via DLSS 3, Nvidia says you’ll get 70% better frame rates with the RTX 4060 over the RTX 3060.
The much larger 24MB L2 cache help RTX performance too, along with improving power efficiency across the board. Speaking of power, the RTX 4060 has a TGP (total graphics power) of just 115 watts, which is another dramatic reduction from the 170 watts of the RTX 3060.
It should be noted that prices on these cheaper cards can also vary more since Nvidia doesn’t offer a first-party Founders Edition. In fact, of the three GPUs, Nvidia will only Founders Editions for the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB.
So, when the RTX 4060 becomes available to purchase in July, expect to see a variety of prices from board partners.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.