RTX 4060! Is an old Intel i7-6700 CPU fast enough to benefit?
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2024
- I purchased this GIGABYTE 4060 OC Low Profile 8G graphics card on discount through Amazon Warehouse Deals because it was the cheapest RTX 4060 at the time. The goal was to see if it was worth switching my MSI 1060 6GB ARMOR 6G OC graphics card while continuing to use the rest of the computer, which is based around an Intel i7-6700 CPU and 32GB of DDR4 at 2100mhz. Besides comparing the two video cards I also talk about aspects of the Gigabyte graphics card which is a unique low profile design. Is there any benefit at all swapping out the GPU? Is this low profile card worth considering even if I have no intention of building a compact form factor PC?
Check out the GIGABYTE 4060 OC Low Profile 8G card:
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Or look for a used MSI 1060 6GB ARMOR 6G OC OCV1 card:
Amazon: amzn.to/43oY9Kt
ebay: ebay.us/3IqNQg
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I test these GPUs with the Phoronix Test Suite:
openbenchmarking.org/
Tests shown: Left 4 Dead 2, Quake II RTX 1.6, Blender 4.0, Chaos Group V-RAY 6.0, Java 2D Microbenchmark 1.0, FurMark 2.1, and Unigine Superposition 1.0.
I also tested FFXIV benchmark and Magix Vegas Pro 19.
#RTX4060 #GTX1060 #gpu - Věda a technologie
Check out the GIGABYTE 4060 OC Low Profile 8G card:
B&H: bhpho.to/4970evV
Amazon: amzn.to/3IMz7vb
Or look for a used MSI 1060 6GB ARMOR 6G OC OCV1 card:
Amazon: amzn.to/43oY9Kt
ebay: ebay.us/3IqNQg
As an affiliate of these shops, I earn from qualifying purchases!
I have the same setup as you. I upgraded from a 1050ti to a 4060, and I can feel a huge improvement. I researched information about bottlenecking on Reddit, and almost all of them said it's not a good idea to pair the 4060 with my 8-year-old CPU (i7 6700).
Anyway, in my case, I still encounter a bottleneck in some games (for example, Battlefield 2042 or Battlefront 2), but it's not a big deal for me. My 4060 is still running at around 70-90%. So, I guess with this setup, I'll still have a good time with my 8-year-old PC for another 2-4 years.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it worked out for you. Yeah, I think the RTX 4060 basically caps out the i7-6700 in many cases at 1080p. I don't play many games, but I usually use v-sync so I'm limited to 75 fps based on my monitor meaning the 4060 vs 1060 gives me a more consistent experience on the old CPU/RAM/MB. Its frustrating that Nvidia limited this card to 8GB of RAM and a 128-bit memory bus, but AMD is doing the same thing and uses more power. Intel ARC has even higher power use and a apparently a large performance drop on old systems without pcie resizable bar support. We've got limited options.
Planning to do the same, so it worth it?!
Since i dont mind not having using its 100% potential
I can update other specs later
Thanks for the video. I have the same setup as you. I'm thinking of upgrading to the 4060 but I'll probably end up getting the ti version but I do need to upgrade my 6700 but then again I don't really
I think the CPU/MB/RAM/SSD upgrade depends on what you do and how smooth of an experience you want there. Plus, how much money you have to spend.
I'm not sure what the performance delta is between the standard and ti version is. I don't know if the the i7-6700 would be able to serve a 4060ti enough data to the card to benefit over a standard 4060. Though, whatever you get it could be an intermediate update before upgrading the entire computer. So in that case anything would work (the more future performance the better). Another quirk of the 4060 series and amd rx 7600 is that they have 8x pci-e instead of 16x lanes at, I think, version 4 but i7-6000 series CPU motherboards would be version 3, so we are losing bandwidth. Not sure if it is much performance in real world scenarios.
It will be a while, but I plan on doing another video with the 4060 I bought after sending the low profile card back. My screens are 1080p, but I have a hdmi recorder/display that can capture 4k so I might be able to test at that resolution in this video.
Big difference, nice !
Yep, even with my old CPU. Glad you enjoyed the video!
It's not so important that the 4060 have a gen 4 connection, but it does need resizable bar to do its best. Not having resizable bar will cost you about 10% of the card's abilities. It's not as critical as with the Intel cards, but it does still matter. Subscribed, BTW.
Glad the video was enjoyable for you! I have a ASUS Proart 4060 now and would like to do another video, but the card disappeared from Amazon making it kinda pointless to make a video about a card people can't buy. Hopefully it's a temporary thing.
Dose it bottleneck?
I don't have anything else to provide outside of what was covered in the video. It is possible there are some bottlenecks considering the old i7-6700 CPU. If we are talking higher resolutions it is possible that the GPU could be a limitation before the CPU would be, but it would depend on how CPU intensive a game is with other compute heavy tasks like AI, world physics, and other non rendering tasks in games.