Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada vs GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada 16 GB with 22 pipelines and 2816 shaders against the 1 year and 3 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
23.1
(Mediocre)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RTX 2000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • 26% higher maximum theoretical performance (15.1 vs 12 TFLOPS)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3 -
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2 -
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6 -
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy -
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima -
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077 -
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 116
1080p Ultra - 96
1440p Ultra - 69
4K Ultra - 40
Margin of Error High Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy - 10615
Solar Bay - 49340
Port Royal - 6054
Fire Strike - 28540
Wild Life Extreme - 20610
Night Raid - 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
89677
RTX 4060 +19%
106633
Background Blur 170.5 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 102.8 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.25 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.06 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.13 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 353.4 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12273.1 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
16935
RTX 4060 +15%
19485
G2D Mark 1073 1036
DirectX 11 138 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 7810 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1055 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2687.32
RTX 4060 +17%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 59 & 2092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
15501
RTX 4060 +15%
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
27554
RTX 4060 +6%
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
12117
RTX 4060 +17%
14234
Image Classification (SP) 6382 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 16489 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17694 23289
Face Detection (HP) 32453 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 56937 78361
Text Classification (SP) 3097 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 4324 3491
Object Detection (SP) 7656 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 29700 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 116441 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 12, 2022 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD107 AD107
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 14700K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (46th and 54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1620 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2130 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 2816 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 24
Tensor Cores 88 96
Ray-tracing Cores 22 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 102 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 187 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
12 TFLOPS
RTX 4060 +26%
15.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 70 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
RTX 4060 +6%
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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