I'm thinking about building a new PC and I'm looking at this card in the price range I can afford. My friends say it's too weak to run new games decently, but I wanted to know if it really can't handle 1440p with good settings. Does anyone here use it and manage to run Helldivers 2 and Black Myth Wukong without dropping too many frames?
The RTX 4060 is really tight for 1440p in 2026. It's not that it won't run games, but you'll need to lower graphics quality quite a bit in the heavier titles. Your friends are right - the card only has 8GB of VRAM and the GPU is weak compared to what games are asking for now. Helldivers 2 might run okay because it's not that demanding, but Black Myth Wukong is going to be a struggle.
The thing is, games coming out this year and next are going to demand more and more. If you lower textures, disable ray tracing, and set everything to medium, you can keep 60fps at 1440p in some titles, but that's not what we want, right. If your budget allows, think about a 4070 Super or something better - you can forget about compromising on settings and still have some headroom for longer.
What kind of fps are you considering acceptable? Because that changes the answer quite a bit.
The 4060 can definitely run 1440p, but people are right when they say it's getting tight. In games like Helldivers 2 it'll be fine, but in Black Myth Wukong you'll need to lower graphics settings to keep around 60 fps stable. If you're happy with 50-60 fps on medium/high settings, you can make it work. Now, if you want everything maxed out with 144 fps, then forget it.
The real problem is the memory - 8GB is not enough for 1440p in 2026. But there's a detail people don't talk about much: try playing at 1440p but with DLSS or FSR turned on. That changes everything, because the card does upscaling really well, and you get visual quality basically for free while keeping more fps. I'd use DLSS on quality, not performance, and then you'd actually get pretty decent settings without suffering so much. But be real: if money's tight and you want to be safe for new releases without regretting it in six months, maybe it'd be worth saving up a bit more and going for something slightly better.
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