RTX 4060! Is an old Intel i7-6700 CPU fast enough to benefit?

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?
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I test these GPUs with the Phoronix Test Suite:
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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

[@TECHiSuppose]

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[@lake8668]

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.

[@TECHiSuppose]

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.

[@Sergio98monster]

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

[@jamesmichaelcabrera9613]

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

[@TECHiSuppose]

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.

[@jamesmichaelcabrera9613]

@@TECHiSuppose I'll be waiting for the video. I still games at 1080P. Thanks for the info

[@shengyi1701]

Glad I saw your vid. I have my 1060 6Gb to compare though I’m tempted by the 4070, the super and it’s Ti variants

[@TECHiSuppose]

Benefit depends on the rest of your system by far at that point. A 4070 Ti would probably be significantly faster when it's unhindered than this 4060, so CPU and other components make more of a difference.

[@oj_dvinci7042]

Big difference, nice !

[@TECHiSuppose]

Yep, even with my old CPU. Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@ThisDreamIsReal]

I still used this cpu faithful 9 years later but I need a gpu to render 2k &4k footage . Since I'm not a gamer mysetup is fine.

[@TECHiSuppose]

Yeah, it's been good enough for a long time!

[@fizanadnan313]

I'm hoping to get an rtx 4060 soon I'm going to pair it with an i5 8500 and I might possibly get an i5 8700k before I buy a new motherboard but it will be interesting in games to see how frame generation will work against CPU bottlenecks as I've heard this feature sometimes alleviates it

[@fizanadnan313]

it should also be noted that in like maybe a year i will probably fully upgrade my motherboard and cpu fully

[@TECHiSuppose]

I'm not sure if DLSS helps there, but you will likely see improvements. I've been playing a game called "POOLS" that has DLSS and it definitely has better performance with DLSS on. I also have a bunch of benchmark data for the ASUS 4060 Proart I bought after returning this Gigabyte card, but it's challenging going through the data to make a video on it. For this new video, if I'm able to do it, will have information on 4k as well as 1080p because I found a way to do that even though I have a 1080p screen (I used my Atomos Ninja V HDMI recorder that can handle 4k as a passthrough). I've seen some CPU limitations in the data at 1080p so far with games like Final Fantasy 14 Online (FFXIV benchmark). That i5-8500 should be at least 10% faster than the CPU I'm using.

[@fizanadnan313]

@@TECHiSuppose yeah I have read in a few places that frame generation can also help with cpu limited frames aswell as gpu limited frames so it should be interesting I will be sure to give your video a watch when it comes

[@ScottGrammer]

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.

[@TECHiSuppose]

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.

[@clarencegigolo]

I am using a Gigabyte ga-z170 (2016) old mobo. Can i still place a 4060 on it? And get a little improvement?

[@TECHiSuppose]

What CPU and how much RAM? Do you use a SSD drive? The Intel i7-6700 CPU based does see benefit, but there are situations where the system is CPU limited.

[@yassinejo2346]

hello bro, l need to know what is the best gpu for the i7 6700 , without bottleneck ?! thank you

[@TECHiSuppose]

I have done a bit more testing with a 4060 after this. There are a some situations where it will be bottlenecked. I doubt buying anything faster would be worthwhile.

[@kptamc]

I found the RTX 3050 6GB to be an excellent solution for systems with 300-350 Watt power supplies. I know a lot of negative has been said about it but for a max 70 Watt draw it delivers the goods for 1080P gaming.

[@TECHiSuppose]

That makes sense! Though the RAM amount is the same as the 1060 6GB in this video I'd imagine it's a nice overall performance bump with extras like RTX.

[@tuliislam1907]

Dose it bottleneck?

[@TECHiSuppose]

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.