I just watched another review of the 4060TI (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLk8xzePDg8) and was about to disagree with it in the comments when their conclusion at the end stopped me because it was kinda inspiring and i agree with their message that PC should always be the technically superior gaming platform compared to consoles and products like the 4060TI do not help making it so.
I can see that i am biased. I am an exclusive 1080p gamer who does not plan to go anywhere higher in the lifetime of this, the next and probably even the GPU generation after that and i also care more about power consumption than the "average guy" because i melt in my room in summer and my electricity is among the most expensive in the world according to this chart:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
So for me the saved energy is a bigger factor than it probably is for most players and even big enough to offset a good chunk of the overprice.
This GPU right now is so perfectly tailored to me that i probably glossed over its shortcomings just like i blamed other to gloss over its strenghts. Of course i would be in favour of it being only 300 dollars.
My only problem with reviews dimissing it as junk right out of hand is that there really right now are no other GPUs that perform better or equally at 1080p Ultra which would be any better in value/frame. Even the review that i posted above (which toally shits on the GPU) has it as the most cost efficient GPU for 1440p(!!!) right now at MSRP prices....so the only way to get better value/frame is to relie on discounted AMD cards of the last generation, most of them running out of stock soon. That is for 1440p, mind you! A resolution at which the 4060TI sucks. And they completely ignore the power aspect, which in my personal case adds ~50 dollars in value to the 4060Ti PER YEAR compared to the most efficient GPUs of last gen. The AMD last gen GPUs which are better value/frame than 4060TI when discounted are NOT the most efficient, so the saving/year would be even greater for me.
But again, my preferences are not everybody's. I get that. If the 4060 TI was 300 dollars i would not even be writing about it here...i would have already bought one because at this price point and saving ~50 dollars in just one fucking year on energy...there really would be nothing you could do wrong with it even if you intend to only use it for 2 years max.