Introduction

Galax GeForce RTX 4060 Ti EX White is a custom-design rendition of NVIDIA's latest RTX 40-series graphics card. Featuring a premium design that makes the card look like it's from a segment above, the card covers all the bases for design, including an all-white exterior, with a white cooler shroud and backplate. The PCB is much smaller than the cooler, so it's out of sight. Two large fans ventilate an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that stretches the entire 25 cm length of the card. These fans, along with an illuminated GeForce RTX logo, complete its lighting and illumination.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is designed for maxed out AAA gaming at 1080p, although 1440p gaming should be possible if you know your way around your game settings, or let GeForce Experience pick the best settings, or better yet, use features such as DLSS. Since the RTX 4060 Ti is based on the latest Ada Lovelace graphics architecture, you even get DLSS 3 frame generation, a path breaking enhancement that generates entire alternate frames of your game purely using AI, without involving the main graphics rendering machinery, nearly doubling your framerate. Besides DLSS 3, you benefit from the NVIDIA's elaborate power optimization for this generation, taking advantage of the 5 nm foundry node.



Based on the AD106 silicon that it nearly maxes out, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti features 34 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors physically present, which work out to 4,352 CUDA cores, 136 Tensor cores, 34 RT cores, 136 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The card gets 8 GB of memory as standard, and while it uses the generationally faster 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, its memory bus width is halved compared to that of the RTX 3060 Ti. NVIDIA has re-architected the memory sub-system with Ada, with large on-die caches on the GPU that minimize round-trips to the video memory by 40-60%, thereby letting NVIDIA simplify the PCB design with fewer memory chips across a narrower memory interface.

The Galax RTX 4060 Ti EX White is strictly 2 slots thick, and is 25 cm in length, so it should enjoy wide compatibility with most cases. The card comes with factory overclocked speeds of 2640 MHz boost, compared to 2535 MHz reference. The card draws power from a single 8-pin power connector. As we mentioned, the cooler is much larger than the PCB underneath, so almost the entire airflow of the second fan flows through the heatsink and out large openings in the backplate. Galax is pricing the RTX 4060 Ti at NVIDIA's MSRP of $400.

Packaging

The Card

The white color theme on Galax's card looks great. Thanks to the short PCB, a lot of the backplate is cut out to allow airflow through the card. On the back you'll find a metal backplate.


RGB lighting elements have been integrated in both fan hubs and near the top edge of the card.


Dimensions of the card are 25.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 661 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


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.


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

Teardown

The thermal solution on the Galax RTX 4060 Ti EX White uses three heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


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 handled by a 6-phase VRM driven by a UPI uP9512R controller.


Alpha & Omega Semiconductor BLN3-AOZ5311NQI DrMOS are used for the GPU power phases, these are each capable of 55 A.


A single-phase buck controller handles memory voltage.


For memory, Galax is using a set of Sinotech ON3103 and ON3107 discrete MOSFETs rated for 64 A.


The GDDR6 memory chips are made by Samsung and carry the model number K4ZAF325BC-SC20. They are specified to run at 2500 MHz (20 Gbps
effective).


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.
• 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 the latest high-end monitors.