RTX 4060 Ti 16GB: What Real Users Actually Think

I don't understand why this exists. It's weaker than a 4070 but has more VRAM? Why not just create a 4070 with 16gb of vram? Nvidia has lost the plot.

A 16GB GPU with a 128bit bus... what a waste.

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You have it all wrong. More vram does not mean faster gens. People want more vram so they can do more things. You can use bigger models, have images with higher resolution, use additional models like control nets, etc. More vram gives you access to more things, not faster gens.

Used 3080 for $450: 10gb or faster GDDR6X Vram, a ton more bus, better performance, better raytracing, overall much better. Used 3080 12gb for $520: 12gb of faster GDDR6X Vram, more bus, even better performance. Now what would you choose? A 4060ti 16gb that is slower than a 3060ti in some games, or a 3080.

Problem is some games will load low quality textures when hitting the VRAM limit and this doesn't show on benchmarks so this doesn't paint the full picture when comparing 8GB and 16GB VRAM.

The extra Vram helps only in situations where the only limit was vram. Watch the HWunboxed review of the 4060ti, they show in certain games (plague tale, Callisto etc) you get rid of the huge FPS drops and stutters simply by having 16gb. You also get rid of the low quality texture issue caused when the GPU can't hold enough textures in memory that you'd have on other games (Halo infinite, forspoken etc). However in games that aren't maxed out or are using under 8gb vram, there is literally no difference.

I'm still a little salty that my 4070 ti didn't come with 16gb vram like wtf nvidia.

16gb on the 4060ti but only 12gb on the 4070ti, the gpu which is much better for higher resolutions. This is the thing I hate the most about nvidia atm. Pricing can go down overtime, but putting more memory on weaker cards than the stronger ones is just pure clownery.

4060ti 4352 SP and 200W TDP is OKish. Most games playable on 1440p. But too slow for RT. At $300 it would sell well — good upgrade for 3060 users. But at $400 it's a meagre upgrade for 3060ti users.

It's a 16 GB card so they have a 'budget' option for consumer machine learning, like how the 3060 had 12 GB.

Many models won't fit on 8gb so you wont get any results at all. That's the real issue.

4060ti is not a 4K card.

A VRAM capacity bottleneck is WAY worse than the bottleneck of a 128bit bus. I don't wanna be forced to play with medium or high textures settings in the next 1-2 years, and a bazillion bit bus won't save your 8GB card when the game is trying to use 10GB.

Just grab a 4070. They're within 50 bucks of that price now. A 4070 does do 4k60 in most modern titles, or is close to it. 12 gb of vram is plenty for most 4k games, and 4 gb more doesn't make up for the fact that the 4060 ti is slower overall.

30% better performance with 6800xt for the same MSRP.

A friend told me when I was pondering about buying a 4060 TI 16GB or a regular 4070 12GB: 'You can always wait 4 more seconds, but you can't wait for what you can't make.' Bought a 4060 TI 16GB. Joining the Flux brigade on day 1 was nice. More RAM doesn't give you faster gen speed, it gives you more flexibility in what you can actually run.

Even if you ignore the competition and only focus on Nvidia's lineup, the price/performance is terrible. You could get a brand new 4070, which is a significantly more powerful card, for just $80 more. Of course, that upsell is the main reason the 4060ti 16GB exists.

There are 2 issues with the 4060ti around memory, capacity and bandwidth. 16gb on a 256bit bus is what the price they are targeting should have and they give out 128bit and 8gb. Solving one helps but it still leaves the narrow bus.

For me it's the price it falls down at. It could age better than the 8 GB but at that price you're better paying some more and getting a 4070 with 12 GB of GDDR6X VRAM which should comfortably carry you through to the next console gen.

I don't understand why these reviewers only look at games to measure and compare performance. When CPUs are released, reviewers don't just look at gaming fps but also productivity-related computation. It's pretty clear this card wasn't primarily made for gamers in mind, aside to address the 'we need vram' crowd.

I just did exactly this upgrade and I can testify it's worth it. Things like SUPIR, Flux finally running correctly on my PC. But things like SD1.5 are the same still, they don't need that much VRAM anyway.

On one hand future proofing is a fools errant, but on another - getting a product that's showing signs of poorly ageing at day of release is arguably just as much of a fools errand. That said this general rule of thumb does kinda get obliterated in case of a 25% price increase strictly for a little bit of future proofing.

It's not just minimal gains over 3060ti. It has chopped down interface — only 8 pcie lanes at measly 128-bit bus. Especially bad if you dont have full pcie gen4 support on your cpu and motherboard.

I wouldn't buy the 8GB card in this day and age. Not a chance. The 16GB I would, but not for $500. At that point you would be better off with a 6800 or a 6800XT.

For the vast majority of games out there, 99% at least, there is no difference between a 8 GB and 16 GB card, at 1080p and 1440p.

8GB is OK in a sub-$220 'value' card where you accept there are some games where you'll have to drop settings from the beginning. Which is literally none of the 8GB launched so far in this generation and why a lot of outlets agree that the 4060Ti 8GB shouldn't have been launched, with the 16GB version being the only one at $350 at most.

FPS numbers alone dont tell the whole story. There are games that have obvious texture cycling, or just load lower level textures in general on the 8GB card, where the 16GB card doesnt suffer from any of those kinds of problems. You arent necessarily losing FPS in most cases with the 4060ti, but you are losing visual fidelity.

I've had this card for 2 months, and it has done amazing at everything I've thrown at it in 1440p. Using dlss and frame generation will ensure you get a good experience at high settings with ray tracing. While most games won't need 16gb of vram, it's handy to have for future titles. 16gb of vram helps with lots of current titles that go over 9gb or 10gb regularly.

If you don't have enough vram, you're hard locked out of using certain models and tools. You'll get an error and the program will just crash on you. You can try to use regular ram instead of vram, but then generation times increase by 50x.

The 16GB version is definitely the way to go for the 4060Ti if you plan on keeping the card for at least a few years.

The 4060ti, especially the 16GB model, was badly reviewed when it came out because it has a bad price. The 16GB model tends to be very popular among content creators due to its large VRAM buffer, which is why its price is generally pretty steep for its gaming performance.

Here is a benchmark from a Japanese guy. It shows that the 4060 ti 16gb will be faster than a 4070 ti when you gen a very big image. Consider that there will be future versions after SDXL, which probably need even more vram, it seems wise to get a card with more vram.

The issue with 4060ti 16gb version is that you're paying a ridiculous premium over the 8gb model, and while the extra Vram is nice to have, in most cases it doesn't result in better gaming performance. The RTX 4070 is $499 and offers around 30% better gaming performance over the 4060ti.

It's not as bad as some would have you believe if you can find one at the now adjusted $450. But you have to use DLSS for pretty much everything where it's available. Without DLSS it's going to really struggle in newer titles. If you're paying over $480, you might as well jump to the 4070 12gb.

Honestly it's going to struggle at 4k. It doesn't perform that great at 1440p. The 16gb 4060ti is just an awful price to performance card. I would consider all alternatives if possible, 7800XT, or possibly a used option.

It's only worth it if you're running AI applications like Stable Diffusion and LLMs that require both high VRAM and CUDA cores. In fact it is the 'cheapest' GPU with both CUDA cores and 16GB VRAM, hence why I bought it. If purely for gaming though, it's terrible value, better get the non-Ti 4060 or even the 3060 for your DLSS and RT needs.

The tom's hardware benchmark is useless because it is on sd1.5, that is as stupid as game benchmarking for current gpu on old games like Age of Empires. It is absolutely silly to buy 8gb vram nowadays if you even slightly interested in AI stuff, even 12gb vram is not enough.

The 4060ti 16gb is a criminally under rated card. I was blown away by the performance based on all the trash talk about the price point and bus width. It definitely handles 1440p really well.

The card has 16GB but only a 128-bit bus, I wish I had known that before purchasing.

Below the 4070 super, the 4000 series is a really poor value proposition for gaming. It's not that they're terrible GPUs, just a really bad price for what you get. If you're getting the 16gb model for non-gaming purposes, then it might make a little more sense.

Crazy how much they want for the 4060 Ti 16gb. For an extra $100, you can get a 4070. The 4070 is significantly faster and it only consumes 40 more watts than a 4060 Ti. You do have to sacrifice 4gb of VRAM, but even at $100 more, the 4070 is a better deal, although, I don't think the 4070 is a good deal in the first place.

I just upgraded from a 3060ti to a 4060ti 16 gig, and the speed is almost identical, with the exception of AI/stable diffusion, which is much faster, simply by virtue of the extra VRAM allowing me to run the big models and holding it plus loras in memory. For gaming, the 4060ti 16gig is mostly wasted.

I have the 4060ti 16gb and primarily use it for flux. The vram goes up to 15.5gb/16gb every single time.

I just bought brand new MSI 16GB version for $470. Compared to 3060 12GB I had it's a definitely step up allowing me to play Alan Wake 2 in comfortable fps. Not to mention I'm doing Stable Diffusion stuff. I'm selling 3060 for $320 so basically it's only $150 to put onto this upgrade.