Wednesday, July 19th 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Review—Not
NVIDIA today launched the 16 GB version of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti "Ada" graphics card to no fanfare. Essentially a memory variant of the RTX 4060 Ti with no other changes in the specs sheet, the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB commands a $100 premium (25%) over the regular RTX 4060 Ti for double the memory size, albeit at the same 128-bit memory bus width, and the same 18 Gbps memory speed. The idea behind the card is that the larger memory should help in scenarios where the 8 GB of memory is found to limit performance. It would've been fun to test this theory if only we had cards to review—we didn't.
NVIDIA's own presentation lists just two games that show gains, and that's probably the best-case.
If you've seen our coverage of the original RTX 4060 Ti or RTX 4060, you'll notice that we've tested 8 to 10 of each on launch day, covering almost every AIC partner. With the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, we were ready to repeat this feat, and cleared our calendars for the launch, except nothing came through. We talked to all the partners, and friends in the industry. We learned that neither NVIDIA nor the partners are sampling the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB. We did try to arrange samples through back-channels, which turned out to be a bust, too, nobody wanted to touch these cards. To prevent those reviewers who could somehow score cards in partnership with retailers, NVIDIA ensured there was no driver available until earlier today. Without drivers, there's no way for anyone to test the card, and it shows—we've scoured the web, and nobody has a review. There should be cards available in retail already, but only listings with "out of stock", "coming soon" have appeared so far. We do intend to buy one off the shelf and test it for you with the first available driver. As of this writing, we cannot find any of these cards in the online retail.
Update 15:16 UTC: We've reached out to several shops here in Germany, they all confirmed that "the embargo expired today at 3 pm", but also mentioned that "the on-shelf availability date is unknown".
Update Jul 19th: First merchants in Germany have received a handful of cards, there's still no stock in UK or USA.
Update Jul 24th: We've bought a RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB in retails and posted our full in-depth review here.
If you've seen our coverage of the original RTX 4060 Ti or RTX 4060, you'll notice that we've tested 8 to 10 of each on launch day, covering almost every AIC partner. With the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, we were ready to repeat this feat, and cleared our calendars for the launch, except nothing came through. We talked to all the partners, and friends in the industry. We learned that neither NVIDIA nor the partners are sampling the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB. We did try to arrange samples through back-channels, which turned out to be a bust, too, nobody wanted to touch these cards. To prevent those reviewers who could somehow score cards in partnership with retailers, NVIDIA ensured there was no driver available until earlier today. Without drivers, there's no way for anyone to test the card, and it shows—we've scoured the web, and nobody has a review. There should be cards available in retail already, but only listings with "out of stock", "coming soon" have appeared so far. We do intend to buy one off the shelf and test it for you with the first available driver. As of this writing, we cannot find any of these cards in the online retail.
Update Jul 19th: First merchants in Germany have received a handful of cards, there's still no stock in UK or USA.
Update Jul 24th: We've bought a RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB in retails and posted our full in-depth review here.
71 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Review—Not
It would have been an interesting review though. Still looking forward to whenever you get one on hand, even if this doesn't bode well for it.
Is it possible to take a 4060 Ti 8GB card and cripple it to 4GB, 6GB, 8GB, and make some "interpolations" to make a prediction of 10GB and 12GB performance, for games that need more than 8GB. I'm sure diminishing returns, but would be interesting to see such analysis. It could give a reasonable indicator for 10GB, 12GB needy games, even if the 16GB is too far of a stretch to guesstimate.
Oh wait, nvidia doesn't care about customers.
ASUS ROG-STRIX-RTX4060TI-O16G-GAMING 660 euro
INNO3D GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Twin X2 OC 16GB GDDR6 540 euro
the chip is exactly the same as the 8GB version and it clearly will not offer better performance than the RTX4070
4060Ti comes out with lackluster performance compared to previous gen and only 8gb of vram support which isnt future proof (or even present proof)
So Nvidia in a kneejerk reaction announced a 16gb version....which will be even more insanely overpriced so nobody even wants it.
And now its here and because of the 128bit bus constrained the card can barely make use of the 16 gbs of vram so its pointless...
But they knew that right? they knew this already....so why even bring it out? this is all such odd behavior.
1 - to prove AMD marketing wrong when they say vram matters;
2 - to fool those who only see big numbers (including the price tag);
3 - to prove Jensen right on his adage "The more you buy, the more you save".
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This also doesnt bring up other technical issues, such as blurry or missing textures, that plague some games on 8GB cards, these issues do not show up on frame time graphs.
A770 16 GB $400
4060 Ti 16 GB $500
7700XT 16 GB $450 (fingers crossed)
Agree on texture pop-ups, though. This should and probably will be made better with just a larger buffer.
As is the OP, shame on your BS ass Nvidia.
I salute you right back Huang ,, ##@£ right off.
It's not "a bad GPU", just the price... Like all of them rn. I still have my 2060/6GB( paid 400€ a few years back, between crypto-crazes), although my rig is not working atm and I don't game. Another story.
It was a knee-jerk reaction to reviewers and customers destroying Nvidia for the 4060 Ti's lack of VRAM. The problem with the 4060 Ti's performance isn't just a lack of VRAM though, it's the lack of bandwidth to feed that VRAM.
Look at the 3060 Ti which also has just 8GB VRAM - Its performance doesn't nosedive as badly as the 4060 Ti does when approaching or exceeding the VRAM buffer, because it's on a 256-bit bus with twice the bandwidth and can do the undesirable data juggling twice as fast. Both cards stutter where 12GB cards don't, but the stuttering on an 8GB 3060 Ti or 3070 is smaller, less intrusive frametime spikes and it settles down faster too.
Should the 4060Ti get more VRAM? Absolutely - but it should also have had either more bandwidth or a much better/bigger cache than the wholly inadequate one Nvidia gave it. They totally failed to disguise or even vaguely camouflage the crippling bandwidth shortage - and that's not something I remember happening to RDNA2 cards when they introduced infinitycache.