Introduction

The Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Ultra W Duo OC is a premium custom-design rendition of the RTX 4060 Ti. The iGame brand from Colorful earned popularity across the globe for its over-the-top custom designs that also give gamers a little more bang for their buck. The company wants to win you over with larger and more flashy cooling solutions, and sometimes even goodies besides the card. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is designed to strike the price-performance sweetspot at a starting price of $400. You should be able to max out any of today's games at 1080p with ray tracing enabled. You can also game at 1440p with high or max settings, although with ray tracing enabled, you might have to pick your game settings a bit more carefully, let GeForce Experience do it, or better yet, use features such as DLSS, and the new DLSS 3 Frame Generation.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is based on the latest GeForce Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, and is built on the 5 nm process. What these mean is that you get next-generation energy efficiency, with the card needing no more than a single 8-pin PCIe power connector; and new features, such as DLSS 3, which nearly double frame-rates at a given quality setting, by drawing alternate frames using AI, without involving the graphics rendering machinery.



The GeForce Ada graphics architecture debuts the 3rd generation of RTX, the path-breaking real-time ray tracing technology by NVIDIA, which combines ray traced effects such as reflections, shadows, global illumination, and motion-blur, with conventional raster 3D graphics. The Ada Lovelace architecture debuts a new CUDA core that in addition to higher IPC and support for new math formats, introduces shader execution reordering capability. The 3rd generation RT core, besides generationally improved ray tracing performance, introduces features such as Displaced Micro-Meshes. The new Optical Flow Accelerator is the component needed to enable DLSS 3, it works not just with gaming workloads, but also with video.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti debuts the 5 nm AD106 silicon to the desktop space, which it nearly maxes out, enabling 34 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors (SM) physically present, working out to 4,352 CUDA cores, 34 RT cores, 136 Tensor cores, 48 ROPs, and 136 TMUs. The card comes with a generationally halved 128-bit GDDR6 memory interface (compared to the 256-bit of the previous-generation RTX 3060 Ti). This interface holds either 8 GB of 16 GB of memory. The card in today's review comes with 8 GB of it. The memory may be generationally faster at 18 Gbps, but still ends up with lower memory bandwidth. NVIDIA says this is nothing to be alarmed about, that the company re-architected the memory sub-system to give large on-die caches a greater role. The last-level cache of the RTX 4060 Ti is 8 times larger than that of the GA104 powering the RTX 3060 Ti, and NVIDIA claims that the larger cache reduces round-trips to the video memory by 40% to 60%, letting the company slim down the memory bus.

The Colorful iGame RTX 4060 Ti Ultra W Duo comes with a compact, albeit premium-looking cooling solution that looks like it's from a segment above. The card has a shorter board length due to its dual fan design. There's a longer version of this card from Colorful that has three fans. The card has a tastefully executed all-white cooler shroud and backplate, with the front side featuring a holographic decal. There's some RGB illumination in the form of a logo on top. The card offers factory overclocked speeds of 2580 MHz, compared to 2535 MHz reference. You also get a couple of enthusiast-friendly features such as dual-BIOS. Colorful is pricing the card at $420, a small premium over the NVIDIA MSRP.

Packaging

The Card

Wow! The Colorful RTX 4060 Ultra White looks amazing. The main color is white as the name suggests, but there's plenty of colorful highlights. For example, the cooler shroud is painted with a color-changing material that shines in various hues, depending on the viewing angle. The metal backplate has red highlights.


Colorful has placed an RGB illuminated element in the card.


Dimensions of the card are 24.0 x 12.5 cm, and it weighs 819 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 45 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4a ports and one HDMI 2.1a (same as Ampere).

The new 8th Gen NVENC now accelerates AV1 encoding, besides HEVC. You also get an "optical flow accelerator" unit that is able to calculate intermediate frames for videos, to smooth playback. The same hardware unit is used for frame generation in DLSS 3.


Colorful opted for a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, this configuration is good for up to 225 W.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Colorful Ultra W uses two heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips, the VRM circuitry is cooled by the airflow of the main cooler.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.

High-resolution PCB Pictures

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High-resolution versions are also available (front, back).

Circuit Board (PCB) Analysis

GPU voltage is a six-phase design, managed by a uPI uP9512R controller.


Alpha & Omega AOZ5311NQI BLN3 DrMOS components are used for GPU voltage; they are rated for 55 A of current each.


Memory voltage is a single-phase design, managed by a buck controller.


For memory, Colorful is using a set of Ubiq QM3098M/QM3092M discrete MOSFETs rated for 56 A.


The memory chips are Samsung K4ZAF325BC-SC20, these are 20 Gbps-rated GDDR6 memory chips.


NVIDIA's AD106 graphics processor is the company's fourth Ada Lovelace GPU. It is built using a 5 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan, with a transistor count of 22.9 billion and a die size of 190 mm².

Test System

Benchmark scores in other reviews are only comparable when this exact same configuration is used.

• All games and cards are tested with the drivers listed above—no performance results were recycled between test systems. Only this exact system with exactly the same configuration is used for all results in this review.
• All graphics cards are tested using the same game version.
• All games are set to their highest quality setting unless indicated otherwise.
• AA and AF are applied via in-game settings, not via the driver's control panel.
• Before starting measurements, we heat up the card for each test to ensure a steady state is tested. This ensures that the card won't boost to unrealistically high clocks for only a few seconds until it heats up, as that doesn't represent prolonged gameplay.
• For better real-life applicability, all game tests use custom in-game test scenes, not the integrated benchmarks

Each game is tested at these screen resolutions:

• 1920x1080: Most popular monitor resolution.
• 2560x1440: Intermediary resolution between Full HD and 4K, with reasonable performance requirements.
• 3840x2160: 4K Ultra HD resolution, available on high-end monitors.