This is going to be awkward for NVIDIA, as the newly-released Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has some pretty demanding system requirements – specifically, the game’s appetite for video memory has caused the newer RTX 4060 to perform worse than its predecessor, the RTX 3060. Ouch.
RTX 4060 Is Aging Badly
When NVIDIA first launched RTX 4060 last year, there was definitely comments on the card’s lack of video memory that can potentially be problematic in the future, as games demand more video memory to load high-resolution textures for the sake of photorealistic graphics.
That future is now manifested through the new Indiana Jones title, as YouTube channel Karan Benchmarks put several Team Green GPUs against each other in various graphics settings. The takeaway, essentially, is the game’s demand for VRAM capacity has effectively made the RTX 3060, which has 12GB of VRAM, perform faster at 1080p compared to its direct successor, the RTX 4060, which comes with a rather paltry 8GB of VRAM onboard.
Specifically, in 1080p native benchmarks (tested on the system with Intel Core i5-13600K and 32GB of DDR4 RAM), the RTX 3060 outperformed the RTX 4060 with 66 FPS vs. 56 FPS, an 18% improvement; add DLSS into the mix and you get 86 FPS for the Ampere-based GPU, while the Ada-based GPU nets 72 FPS. That’s a 19.4% lead for the Ampere card, proving that more VRAM is always going to make the GPU more future-proof.
So, for the RTX 3060 12GB users out there, it’s looking like the GPU is a sound investment for their PCs; as for the RTX 4060 (and even RTX 4060 Ti 8GB) users, you’ll have to rely on DLSS Frame Generation, a RTX 40-exclusive feature, to boost framerates – though this may come with more obvious visual defects especially during low-FPS scenarios.
Source: Windows Central
Pokdepinion: If RTX 5060 still continues to use 8GB of VRAM, it’s pretty much Team Green shooting its own foot at this point.
