The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB brings Nvidia's awesome DLSS 3 mainstream, but offers disappointing value as an upgrade to the 3060 Ti and as a standalone 1080p gaming option in 2023. Technical decisions also make it unappealing for 1440p gamers, unlike its predecessor. At first blush, Nvidia's $399 GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) looks like it should be a smashing success. Its predecessor, 2020's $399 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, was one of the best GPUs in a strong RTX 30-series generation, offering impeccable 1080p and spectacular 1440p gaming performance at a reasonable price. The new RTX 4060 Ti sticks to the same price while weaving in Nvidia's latest killer RTX 40-series features, like DLSS 3, Reflex, RTX Video Super Resolution, best-in-class ray tracing, AV1 encoding, stunning power efficiency, and more. Nvidia made technical decisions--reducing core counts and altering the memory subsystem--that allow the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti to scream at 1080p resolution but make it unappealing for 1440p gaming.

You might spend top dollar for fancy new graphics card hardware, but one of the key components to gaming performance is actually software. While the brute force of the hardware gets most of the glory (and is indeed essential), the software side is the magic that pieces it together. Without good software, even the ferocious Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is reduced to a fancy paperweight--especially when running Cyberpunk 2077's glorious new path traced Overdrive mode. Software can also substantially improve the hardware performance. Including both AI-powered frame generation and Nvidia's wondrous latency-reducing Reflex technology, DLSS 3.0 makes for a potent recipe. And with the unveiling of affordable new GeForce RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti graphics cards, this fantastic technology is about to become a lot more accessible. This isn't the same old DLSS upsampling you're used to, however.

You might spend top dollar for fancy new graphics card hardware, but one of the key components to gaming performance is actually software. While the brute force of the hardware gets most of the glory (and is indeed essential), the software side is the magic that pieces it together. Without good software, even the ferocious Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 is reduced to a fancy paperweight--especially when running Cyberpunk 2077's glorious new path traced Overdrive mode. Software can also substantially improve the hardware performance. Including both AI-powered frame generation and Nvidia's wondrous latency-reducing Reflex technology, DLSS 3.0 makes for a potent recipe. This isn't the same old DLSS upsampling you're used to, however. We're going to go over some basics of what DLSS 3.0 is, and its application to Nvidia's RTX 40-series GPUs.

We're mere days from the debut of Nvidia's next-gen GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards, with the $700 GeForce RTX 3080 scheduled to hit the streets on Thursday. And Fortnite will be right alongside it, as the world's most popular game will add real-time ray tracing, Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 2.0, and Nvidia Reflex to Fortnite on September 17, Nvidia said Tuesday. Nvidia previously teased Fortnite flipping on RTX during the RTX 30-series reveal, but there wasn't a firm release date. While some games only dip their toes into real-time ray tracing with an effect or two, Fortnite is diving in, with ray traced reflections, shadows, global illumination, and ambient occlusion. That many goodies could land Fortnite alongside Minecraft and Control as the standard-bearers for ray tracing.