GeForce RTX 4060: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce RTX 4060 laptop chip is the current generation's sweet spot — 191 matched models make it the most represented GPU in the catalog, and its combination of Ada Lovelace features with mainstream pricing has made it the default mid-range gaming laptop since 2023. It has been benchmarked in 119 games at 1080p. This guide covers its ranking, frame rates and the laptops that carry it.

Where the RTX 4060 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 75.9 places the chip 18th of 341 scored mobile GPUs — the top five percent. The neighborhood spans tiers and eras: NVIDIA's professional RTX 4000 Ada (77.2) and the Radeon RX 7800M (77) above, the current-generation RTX 5070 Laptop GPU (76.1) alongside, and the RTX A4000 (75.6), Radeon RX 6800M (75.1) and RTX 2080 (75) below. Outranking the previous generation's flagship — the RTX 2080 — while costing far less used is the tier's whole sales pitch, and the table confirms it.

What the chip brings

The AD107 die on a 5 nm process carries 3,072 shader cores, 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 272 GB/s of bandwidth, about 15.1 TFLOPS and a 115 W-class thermal design. The feature stack is complete — ray tracing cores, DLSS frame generation, Resizable BAR, CUDA compute — and it is the features rather than the raw TFLOPS that define the experience: frame generation turns the mid-tier silicon into high-tier frame rates. Public benchmarks sit around 17,400 PassMark points and a 3DMark Time Spy graphics score near 10,300. The 8 GB pool is adequate at 1080p and the one spec to watch at 1440p.

FPS in games at 1080p

Competitive titles saturate: CS:GO, Overwatch and Valorant all post 240 FPS at the high preset, Counter-Strike 2 195, Fortnite 180, Dota 2 164 and GTA V 141. The AAA catalog plays at high across the board — Forza Horizon 5 at 238, F1 2021 at 208, the Witcher 3 at 191, Diablo 4 at 180 rising to 204 on medium, Hitman 3 at 173, Forza Horizon 4 at 160, Shadow of the Tomb Raider at 156 rising to 195, Far Cry 5 at 128 and Cyberpunk 2077 at 123. The heaviest ports hold 60-ish on high and clear it on medium: Battlefield 2042 at 123 rising to 146, Hogwarts Legacy 71 rising to 88, Baldur's Gate 3 69 rising to 78, God of War 52 rising to 58 and The Last of Us 55 rising to 63.

Laptops that carry it

The 191-model roster spans 2024–2025 machines at every mainstream price. HP's Victus 15 starts at $1,256 and the Victus 16 sits at $1,412; Lenovo's Legion 5 16IRX9 asks $1,400; the OMEN 16 and 16 Slim span $1,280–$1,665 and the OMEN 17 $1,509–$1,713; premium portables like the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 and MSI Stealth A16 AI+ ask $1,440; and the Alienware M18 R2 tops the roster at $2,485. Roster medians are modern-flagship grade: best-CPU score 89.8, gaming index 82, energy efficiency 84.2 and 69 games clearing recommended settings.

Bottom line

The RTX 4060 is the recommendation most used-gaming-laptop budgets converge on: eighteenth of 341, previous-flagship performance at mainstream prices, DLSS frame generation for free headroom, and the deepest machine selection on the site from $1,256. The compare pages against the RTX 3060, 3070, 4070 and 5060 let buyers price each step precisely — the 4070 buys roughly ten ranking places, the 3060 saves money and trades the feature set. For a buyer who wants one machine to do everything for the next five years without overspending, this is the tier.