As per a tweet by a GPU leaker named Kopite7kimi, the GeForce RTX 4060 (AD106) delivers a TimeSpy Extreme score of 7,000 points. If it is accurate, then it will surely put GeForce RTX 4060's performance between RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. Also, Kopite7kimi noted that Nvidia's AD106 and the more budget-friendly AD107 die would have eight PCIe lanes at their disposal except 16. 

It is for the first time we have got TimeSpy Extreme performance figure from the hardware leaker about Nvidia's RTX 40-series (Ada Lovelace) GPUs. AD106 will power the next-gen RTX 4060 and also RTX 4050 Ti. 

According to Kopite7kimi, the new score is not that strong but a little difference is expected. For instance, the current RTX 3060 has average TimeSpy Extreme graphics score of about 4,500 points to 4,800 points. So, if Kopite7kimi's data is true and RTX 4060 AD106 GPU has a Time Spy Extreme score of 7000, then it can be said that the RTX 4060 is 50% faster than the RTX 3060. 

It would put the AD106 die or rather RTX 4060 at performance parity with cards such as RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. RTX 4060 seems to be a good upgrade than RTX 3060. But this is the only problem as we do not have the alleged TimeSpy Extreme scores on a GPU that is not yet out. It can be said that RTX 4060's performance looks right if history repeats itself. 

The time when RTX 3060 was released, it outperformed the RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 by few percentage points. Also, RTX 4060 would be doing same being quicker than RTX 3060 but performing in a similar manner to the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. 

The most interesting part of the Tweet is the claims of AD106 and AD107 getting nerfed to eight PCIe lanes instead of the traditional 16. The same thing is done by AMD with its entry-level Radeon RX 5000 and mid-range RX 6000 series product stack. It seems that Nvidia will follow suit with GeForce RTX 40-series. 

If we assume that Nvidia decides to use PCIe 4.0 instead of PCIe 5.0, still we can't believe it will be a problem on modern platforms. For example, for an RTX 4050 and RTX 4060, a PCIe 4.0 x8 configuration should be enough and give sufficient bandwidth for PCIe heavy applications. PCIe 4.0 x8 features the same bandwidth as PCIe 3.0 x16 and the RTX 2080 Ti - the last GPU to run PCIe 3.0, ran well with a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. 

The only problem with PCIe 4.0 x8 is that the older systems are limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds. It will force PCIe 4.0 x8 GPUs to alternate to PCIe 3.0 x8 which is slower than PCIe 3.0 x16 and PCIe 4.0 x8. Thus, as a result we could see FPS reductions due to PCIe bottleneck but we can't be sure till we get our hands on Nvidia's RTX 4050 and RTX 4060.