NVIDIA to Launch RTX 4060 Series with Staggered Release in July; Three SKUs on the Way
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Moonbogg
Good to see more Vram, but now watch the 16GB version cost $599. 😀
alanm
16gb vram on 128 bit bus. Doesnt sound too exciting.
wavetrex
Well yes, but even that 128bit bus is several orders of magnitude faster than PCIe-8x (ewww), so at least the card doesn't run out of internal memory...
That 4060 Ti 16GB is the only one in the x60 lineup that makes sense in the 2023-2024 cycle ... but I'm sure it will have some ridiculous price to match, so it won't actually make sense, at least financially.
fantaskarsef
What a show... I honestly believe the technical marketing team at Nvidia these days is suffering from mental illness. I hope they will get better soon.
Why on earth would you create a portfolio of a 12GB 4070 which is reasonable, but a 4060TI with 16GB. They should have done it just the other way around, if you ask me.
The only thing I can imagine is that because they have postponed a new generation until at least 2025, they will sell those lame chips they have right now with refreshes during the next 24 months. Like, suddenly you have 16GB 4080s with slightly higher clocking chips and such rubbish. Just to milk that generation until they release something new again.
moo100times
Can't have too much linear performance improvements. That would eat into generational replacement profits
cucaulay malkin
128-bit bus might start to lose performance in comparison to 3070/6800 even at 1440p already. If it's 2-4% at times, no biggie, but if it's 5-10% in more than just a few cases then it's a problem. We'll see, but I think this will be the case. Would prefer 4070 to drop to 499 instead of seeing a 4060ti 16g at this price. at least with 16GB pcie 8x won't matter at all.
Undying
Nvidia knows they made a mistake releasing 4060ti with only 8gb vram so they are trying to wiggle their way out by also releasing 16gb version that will be better but probably more expensive and unfortunately 16gb on a 128bit bus and pcie x8 is not appealing.
I expect 4060ti 8gb to be broken and destroyed on the reviews like HU. We all know what happens when x8 card run out of vram. 😀
alanm
Remember, if its in a pci-e gen 4 system, x8 will not hamper performance as its the same as pcie gen 3 x16. You need a more powerful card than that to see differences.
Undying
The impact is very much big on low vram cards. Ruuning out of vram when you only have 8pcie lanes even gen4 is a disastrous.
schmidtbag
I don't see the 128 bit bus being a problem here. This is a 4060 - the GPU itself probably wouldn't keep up with a wider bus in a lot of cases anyway. I think it is odd and overkill to include 16GB, considering the higher-end models have less, but hey, we asked for more and that's what we're getting.
alanm
Bold statement. Link to where gen4 x8 or gen 3x16 "is disastrous" on this caliber card?
Undying
AMD rx6500 and rx6600 comes to mind with the same configurations. Still you need find a game where vram becomes a limit but im sure what reviewers will do.
GlassGR
some super alpha ultra modder will do an experiment and add the missing pci-x lanes to show us the improvment in fps ....
Embra
Memory should be balanced somewhat to the what the performance level of the GPU is to some degree, though I would rather be on the high end rather than low end.
12 GB sounds about the right aout for the 4060 Ti.
Reviews will be interesting to see on the same card with 8 and 16 GB vrm.
schmidtbag
The 6500 had 4GB and x4 lanes; it was a worst-case scenario. If it had either 8GB or x8 lanes, it would have fared much better. From what I recall, any more than x8 4.0 lanes wouldn't make much of a difference since I think SRAM would become a bottleneck, at least for dual-channel DDR4 that's the case.
So basically, as long as you have at least x8 lanes (which a 4060 does), you only need enough VRAM where your SRAM bandwidth isn't saturated. For well-optimized games, 8GB is actually enough for a 4060. In 4K it will likely become completely filled, but not to the point that SRAM can't keep up. The unfortunate reality is, many games are horribly optimized, and I would argue most have much room for improvement. That means a 4060 would be better off with 10GB or maybe even 12GB.
Venix
16gb ? Well Nvidia you have my attention! Depends how much the increased cache can make up for the 128 bit bus and the price . If can get it for 450ish sadly I would cavee in my 1060 literally stopped working twice so far but comes back ... :P
Yosif Videlov
16G on a 128bit bus on 8x pci-e lanes, total trash waste of money...
barbacot
In a way you're right that having 16 GB VRAM on a 128 bit is like cramming all the cars going on a six lanes highway into a two way road but on the other hand GDDR6 is quite fast to at least overcome some of these difficulties running on slower gpu's like 4060...anyway some of these 16 GB will be wasted in what is a marketing move - waste of vram...
wavetrex
"8 GB is not enough !!!"
"16 GB is a waste of vram... marketing move"
... people today... seesh 🙄
Undying
12gb/192bit would be perfect here and 4070/4070ti could use a 16gb on a 256bit bus.
