NVIDIA T500 Laptop GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8G

The Nvidia T500 Mobile (formerly known as Quadro T500) for laptops is a professional mobile graphics card that is based on the Turing architecture (TU117 chip). It is based on the consumer GeForce MX450 and features the same 896 cores and a 64 Bit memory bus. Currently it is available with 2 or 4 GB graphics RAM (GDDR5 or GDDR6). The TDP ranges between 18 - 25 Watt depending on the variant. As the MX450, the T500 also supports PCIe 4.0. The chip is manufactured in 12nm FinFET at TSMC. 

The Turing generation did not only introduce raytracing for the RTX cards, but also optimized the architecture of the cores and caches. According to Nvidia the CUDA cores offer now a concurrent execution of floating point and integer operations for increased performance in compute-heavy workloads of modern games. Furthermore, the caches were reworked (new unified memory architecture with twice the cache compared to Pascal). This leads to up to 50% more instructions per clock and a 40% more power efficient usage compared to Pascal. In contrary to the faster Quadro RTX cards, the T500 does not feature raytracing and Tensor cores.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is a mid-range desktop GPU which is manufactured in a 5 nm process at TSMC. The manufacturer thus rounds off its current Ada-Lovelace lineup further in the direction of the mid-range. The AD106 is used as the chip. It combines 4,352 CUDA cores with 8 GB GDDR6. An Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB VRAM is supposed to follow later. The memory interface is 128 bits, which results in a memory bandwidth of only 288 GB/s.

Features

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is not deprived of the features that have already arrived with the high-end models of the Ada-Lovelace generation, such as DLSS 3.0 with frame generation. Thus, the new mid-range clearly stands out from the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and can gain a significant advantage in games that offer these features. 

Performance

Without DLSS, the performance of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is about 10% better than that of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Compared to AMD, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti positions itself exactly between an AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT and an AMD Radeon RX 6800, although AMD has a small advantage here with the larger VRAM when it goes beyond 1080p. However, this is not the intended goal of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, as this is rather a graphics card for the 1,080p gaming range.