graphics card compatibility?

[FUSION1]

So, I have a MSI 460m ds3h ac I'm curious to know if it is compatible with the 4060, I'm not worried about my CPU and power supply unit they have been recently upgraded. However, I can't seem to find anything on my mother board and what it works with I'm currently utilizing a 1650 super btw.

[Tetras]

Should be fine, there are user profiles benchmarking the board with a 4060 on userbenchmark, so it works well enough to do that (scroll down to "User benchmarks" here).

 

You will get a small performance loss from pcie 3.0, but no big deal.

[kitnoman]

Simple answer: YES.

Long answer. For gpu's what matters is pcie gen and number of lanes being used on both parts. At the very least newer gpus like 4060 that has pcie gen 4 are backward compatible. So it would work, but by how much? Not sure, try watching reviews about 4060 on motherboards with pcie gen 3. As for the number of lanes, I believe 4060 are has 8lanes instead of the full x16. But it's actually slow enough that it probably won't have any issue on pcie 3.

[Eigenvektor]

2 hours ago, kitnoman said:

As for the number of lanes, I believe 4060 are has 8lanes instead of the full x16.

No need to guess, use TPUs GPU database: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4060.c4107, it has x8 lanes

 

3 hours ago, FUSION1 said:

I can't seem to find anything on my mother board and what it works with I'm currently utilizing a 1650 super btw.

Because it's a non-concern. Any semi-modern motherboard will work with any semi-modern GPU. As long as both have PCIe they will be compatible.

 

TPU has a number of tests specifically focused on PCIe express scaling, all the way down to PCIe 1.1:

• https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-pci-express-scaling/ (x16)
• https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6600-xt-pci-express-scaling/ (x8)
• https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-radeon-rx-6500-xt-pci-express-scaling/ (x4)

For faster cards with more memory like the RTX 4090 with x16 lanes, running on PCIe 3.0 is effectively a non-issue. The cards that suffer the most are low-end cards like the RX 6400/RX 6500 XT, which only have x4 lanes. Cards with x8 lanes are mostly fine, with some games losing slightly more performance than others.

[starsmine]

4 hours ago, Tetras said:

Should be fine, there are user profiles benchmarking the board with a 4060 on userbenchmark, so it works well enough to do that (scroll down to "User benchmarks" here).

 

You will get a small performance loss from pcie 3.0, but no big deal.

that's probably the worst source out there. 

user benchmark straight up makes up numbers and lies about products. its actually some of the most unhinged shit I have ever seen about hardware. you cant even get relative performance numbers out of that site. 

OP, PCIe buses are all intercomparable. you can plug in a PCIe 5 device into PCIE 1/2/3/4 slots
you can plug a PCIe 1/2/3/4 into a PCIe 5 slot. Compatablity is never the question, its how much of a bandwith cut that might occur and if that is actually a problem. 

the 4060 will loose a marginal amount of performance due to it wanting more then 8x pcie 3.0 bandwith, but it will still perform like a 4060, so there is no reason to downgrade either. 

[Tetras]

3 hours ago, starsmine said:

that's probably the worst source out there. 

user benchmark straight up makes up numbers and lies about products. its actually some of the most unhinged shit I have ever seen about hardware. you cant even get relative performance numbers out of that site. 

I'm not recommending the source in regards to performance or whatever, I just use it to check what kind of cards people are able to run in old motherboards and that part of the site is occasionally helpful, though realistically I have no concern about a 4060 in a 10th gen board.