NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Available as 8 GB and 16 GB, This Month. RTX 4060 in July

[btarunr]

In what could explain the greater attention by leaky taps on the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti compared to its sibling, the RTX 4060, NVIDIA is preparing a staggered launch for its RTX 4060-series. We're also learning that there are as many as three SKUs in the series—the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB, the RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB, and the RTX 4060. All three will be announced later this month, however, only the RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB will be available to purchase at the time. The RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and RTX 4060 will be available from July.

At this point, little is known about what segments the 8 GB and 16 GB variants of the RTX 4060 Ti besides memory size. The RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB is rumored to feature 34 out of 36 streaming multiprocessors (SM) physically present on the 5 nm "AD106" silicon, which gives NVIDIA some theoretical headroom to enable a few more shaders. These 34 work out to 4,352 CUDA cores, while a fully unlocked AD106 has 4,608. The RTX 4060 is a significantly different SKU that's based on a maxed out "AD107" silicon, with 30 SM, or 3,840 CUDA cores, although it should be possible for some RTX 4060 cards be based on a heavily cut-down AD106.



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[ixi]

Rtx 4060 ti with 16GB, what kind of miracle is this?

 

[Solaris17]

Rtx 4060 ti with 16GB, what kind of miracle is this?

I’m willing to bet it was a late sku they had no intention of initially releasing until the backlash regarding there vram practices.

 

[Hyderz]

Would you look at that... 16gb

 

[whereismymind]

16 GB is just flat out overkill.. my guess is that the 4060 Ti 16G will cost a pretty 100-200 usd above the normal Ti, and thatll be harboring into 4070 Ti territory, the 4070 already has 12G vram, so if you wanted to game, its either worse card with more ram or better card with less ram. why not just make the 4060 Ti at 10 GB

 

[64K]

16 GB is just flat out overkill.. my guess is that the 4060 Ti 16G will cost a pretty 100-200 usd above the normal Ti, and thatll be harboring into 4070 Ti territory, the 4070 already has 12G vram, so if you wanted to game, its either worse card with more ram or better card with less ram. why not just make the 4060 Ti at 10 GB

All I can tell you is that Nvidia works in mysterious ways. They do oddball things from time to time and their logic is unfathomable when they do it.

Edit: I could reference all the way back to the Kepler series. The GTX 780 came with a 6 GB VRAM version and the GTX 780 Ti, while the GPU was considerably faster, only came with 3 GB VRAM.

 

[BoboOOZ]

I’m willing to bet it was a late sku they had no intention of initially releasing until the backlash regarding there vram practices.

Yepp, that just shows how fast Nvidia can react when needed. Kudos to them for that, at least.

 

[ViperXTR]

Reminds me of the old gen gpus, where low ends get weirdly high vram but has no gpu horsepower to take advantage of it

 

[solarmystic]

After the precedent they set with a 3060 12 GB and 2060 12GB VRAM editions having more VRAM than cards higher up the stack, nothing surprises me anymore.

4060TI/4060 with 16 GB VRAM could unironically be the most future proof budget card in the Ada line up compared to the 4070/4070TI with just 12 GB VRAM once games require 16 GB VRAM for maximum texture quality.

Which will be the reality in a few years time.

What happened with the 3070 will happen with the 4070 again down the road.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Big N makes no sense at all

 

[Why_Me]

This is good news ^^

 

[tvshacker]

The 3070 only recently (last week or so) dropped below 500€ where I live, so if the 4060TI goes for the rumoured 450$ it better be the 16GB or the 8GB should perform considerably better than the 3070...

 

[Verpal]

if 4060ti 16GB is real I might just sell my 3060 12GB and do a small upgrade, I need more VRAM for LLM and have to stay with NVIDIA for other production workloads.

 

[ixi]

I would not hype or talk about it now. We must wait and see if 16GB version will come out. If it will - good. Otherwise, meh.

 

[tvshacker]

I would not hype or talk about it now. We must wait and see if 16GB version will come out. If it will - good. Otherwise, meh.

What shenanigans will they come up with to not cripple the professional line?

 

[bug]

Reminds me of the old gen gpus, where low ends get weirdly high vram but has no gpu horsepower to take advantage of it

Which is probably what's going on here. But the zombies crave "moar VRAM", Nvidia is going to give them just that.

 

[trog100]

more memory is a waste of space if the card dosnt have the grunt to run resolutions and games that need it.. having said that just reading this forum makes me think there are plenty of folks who think otherwise..

trog

 

[TumbleGeorge]

I wonder how much VRAM will be needed in just a few years when the world's first holographic PC games will be available? I mean real volume projected full color holography, high definition, not some imitation.

 

[bug]

more memory is a waste of space if the card dosnt have the grunt to run resolutions and games that need it.. having said that just reading this forum makes me think there are plenty of folks who think otherwise..

trog

It's also an issue of bandwidth. If it takes 10 seconds to read all the VRAM, that's not going to give you a good in-game experience, extra VRAM will be there just for show.
But "balance" seems to be too advanced a concept these days, everybody just wants "moar everything!".

Sure, if it's $10-20 more for the 16GB version, just get that. But as somebody else pointed out, if it's $100 more, you're better off buying into the next tier.

 

[henok.gk]

Looks like a kneejerk reaction from the recent backlash. I'm just curious to see how that 128 bit bus will hold up.

 

[tvshacker]

more memory is a waste of space if the card dosnt have the grunt to run resolutions and games that need it.. having said that just reading this forum makes me think there are plenty of folks who think otherwise..

trog

So we've recently confirmed that the 3060TI/3070/3070TI would have benefited from more VRAM.
The 4060 is expected to at least match 3060TI so it should have more RAM or it'll have a serious risk of being DOA.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

16 GB is just flat out overkill.. my guess is that the 4060 Ti 16G will cost a pretty 100-200 usd above the normal Ti, and thatll be harboring into 4070 Ti territory, the 4070 already has 12G vram, so if you wanted to game, its either worse card with more ram or better card with less ram. why not just make the 4060 Ti at 10 GB

Which is probably what's going on here. But the zombies crave "moar VRAM", Nvidia is going to give them just that.

Yeah most though, want more Vram on the cards that have been proven would have been able to use it, not this, you know like the 3070 4070 3080 10GB and just like with 3### series Nvidia trolls it's own consumers with this SHIT.

At the low end they use high Vram to sell chips , Just like AMD.

In the mid range you get trolled.
And in the high end especially but in general your wallets getting a beating.

Knee jerk, look at 3060's, same shit different gen.

 

[BoboOOZ]

more memory is a waste of space if the card dosnt have the grunt to run resolutions and games that need it.. having said that just reading this forum makes me think there are plenty of folks who think otherwise..

trog

This is an old misconception, most of the stuff that is taking up most VRAM these days are detailed textures and detailed object structure. These don't require much work from from the GPU at all, they just require a lot of memory space (they need to be kept in VRAM) so that they can be added to the frame buffer in time for each frame.

There are plenty of examples of 3060 beating 3070 in new, vram hungry games just because of more VRAM and in spite of weaker core.

 

[tvshacker]

There are plenty of examples of 3060 beating 3070 in new, vram hungry games just because of more VRAM and in spite of weaker core.

And less bandwidth than the 3070 as well.

 

[Hyderz]

4060ti 16/8 be a repeat of 1060 3/6gb ?
vram difference and also cuda and clock speed diff