Do Not Buy: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GPU Review & Benchmarks
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Date: 2023-05-23
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Comments and reviews: 15
TheNotoriousDRZ
I was already annoyed at the 3060Ti having 2x the raster performance of my 1070 and the same vram, and now nvidia releases this garbage... I miss the Pascal era. For 325 BNIB the 1070 lasted me 6 years before I felt like I needed a raster performance upgrade, whereas I feel the VRAM constraints daily on my almost a year old (to me) 3060ti. If it was a 12gb card it would have been amazing, but even a 2080ti owner isn't getting as much value as a 1080ti owner 3-6 years on, and I don't see it getting any better. AMD will have 32gb VRAM cards and nvidia will still be stuck on 16gb VRAM for their 70 series in the next few gens, while touting some memory optimization AI powered compression algo so they can continue to skimp on hardware and reduce memory bus to the bare minimum.
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I was already annoyed at the 3060Ti having 2x the raster performance of my 1070 and the same vram, and now nvidia releases this garbage... I miss the Pascal era. For 325 BNIB the 1070 lasted me 6 years before I felt like I needed a raster performance upgrade, whereas I feel the VRAM constraints daily on my almost a year old (to me) 3060ti. If it was a 12gb card it would have been amazing, but even a 2080ti owner isn't getting as much value as a 1080ti owner 3-6 years on, and I don't see it getting any better. AMD will have 32gb VRAM cards and nvidia will still be stuck on 16gb VRAM for their 70 series in the next few gens, while touting some memory optimization AI powered compression algo so they can continue to skimp on hardware and reduce memory bus to the bare minimum.
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JohnnyNismo
But Nvidia has the best drivers! They've never ever had a driver problem. DLSS 3 make the 4060 Ti totally worth the price too. If the game doesn't have DLSS 3 then it's not even worth playing. Who needs actual memory, memory bandwidth, or rasterization when you have DLSS 3?! Stop being AMD fanboys and buy the 4060 Ti 8GB. You don't need anymore than 8GB because it has CACHE! Do you people even know what cache is? Stop being such AMD shills and just buy Nvidia GPUs and only ever Nvidia GPUs because they're clearly better in every way.
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But Nvidia has the best drivers! They've never ever had a driver problem. DLSS 3 make the 4060 Ti totally worth the price too. If the game doesn't have DLSS 3 then it's not even worth playing. Who needs actual memory, memory bandwidth, or rasterization when you have DLSS 3?! Stop being AMD fanboys and buy the 4060 Ti 8GB. You don't need anymore than 8GB because it has CACHE! Do you people even know what cache is? Stop being such AMD shills and just buy Nvidia GPUs and only ever Nvidia GPUs because they're clearly better in every way.
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Kuuga
i hate the idea that nvidia is killing the entry level/mid range market with these cards.. I'd love to get into streaming at some point but it'd be nice to get a card that has av1 encoding and is well supported but i don't need RT or DLSS I just want a nice budget option that's at like 200-250 but has a good video encoder and has all the current stuff for playing games like Street Fighter 6 and such at the best settings i can manage while possibly streaming it
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i hate the idea that nvidia is killing the entry level/mid range market with these cards.. I'd love to get into streaming at some point but it'd be nice to get a card that has av1 encoding and is well supported but i don't need RT or DLSS I just want a nice budget option that's at like 200-250 but has a good video encoder and has all the current stuff for playing games like Street Fighter 6 and such at the best settings i can manage while possibly streaming it
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3D
So same performance as there updated GDDR6X RTX3060Ti or LESS. Nvidia must have alot of them laying around still for them to be this silly and make the card this low. Maybe have a super SKU planned for when the RTX 3060Ti finally sell out if we are lucky, but im pretty sure they nerfed this Gen for this reason, to sell there left over 30 Gen cards. Cards with lower watts then last gen is a big giveaway, or maybe to make 50 Gen look amazing so we forget 40 Gen.
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So same performance as there updated GDDR6X RTX3060Ti or LESS. Nvidia must have alot of them laying around still for them to be this silly and make the card this low. Maybe have a super SKU planned for when the RTX 3060Ti finally sell out if we are lucky, but im pretty sure they nerfed this Gen for this reason, to sell there left over 30 Gen cards. Cards with lower watts then last gen is a big giveaway, or maybe to make 50 Gen look amazing so we forget 40 Gen.
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XDSDDLord
One critic is that if you're going to use the argument you can OC the 3060Ti to make up the difference, then you have to take into account that you can OC the 4060Ti as well. We don't know how much headroom the 4060Ti has, but it consumes much less power, so it might overclock higher. I'm not defending Nvidia or their garbage product; I am simply pointing out that when you change one side of the equation, you are supposed to balance the other side.
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One critic is that if you're going to use the argument you can OC the 3060Ti to make up the difference, then you have to take into account that you can OC the 4060Ti as well. We don't know how much headroom the 4060Ti has, but it consumes much less power, so it might overclock higher. I'm not defending Nvidia or their garbage product; I am simply pointing out that when you change one side of the equation, you are supposed to balance the other side.
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Luke
And here it is
All those who slated me when around 3 to 4 months ago i strickly stated watch the lower end40 series have big memory bus reductions and PCIE gen 4 limitations... Well i ssit here and say I TOLD YOU SO and you lot wwre to gullable to think Nvidia would not do this to peg card performance!
All to make the 50 series look even better that in reality it actually will be
Again watch that space I've said it nowm
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And here it is
All those who slated me when around 3 to 4 months ago i strickly stated watch the lower end40 series have big memory bus reductions and PCIE gen 4 limitations... Well i ssit here and say I TOLD YOU SO and you lot wwre to gullable to think Nvidia would not do this to peg card performance!
All to make the 50 series look even better that in reality it actually will be
Again watch that space I've said it nowm
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KYSMO
Why shouldn't they market a card for 1080p gaming? 1080p is still fairly sharp and by far the most popular resolution out there. It's almost if nVidia has a right to produce different tiers of products and market all of them and that nVidia is using that right. We can criticize the price, but simply schmidtting on nVidia for producing a 1080p-oriented card at this point in time seems just overly elitist and a little pathetic.
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Why shouldn't they market a card for 1080p gaming? 1080p is still fairly sharp and by far the most popular resolution out there. It's almost if nVidia has a right to produce different tiers of products and market all of them and that nVidia is using that right. We can criticize the price, but simply schmidtting on nVidia for producing a 1080p-oriented card at this point in time seems just overly elitist and a little pathetic.
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The
nVidia have _openly admitted_ that 8GB of VRAM isn't enough to run some current games at 1080p at high settings. And yet they foist this garbage on us, with the rationale that if enough of us buy it, game developers will be forced to constrain their games to suit the lower-quality hardware.
The company is legitimately acting as though it's a monopoly, and I desperately want to see AMD and Intel come and eat their lunch.
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nVidia have _openly admitted_ that 8GB of VRAM isn't enough to run some current games at 1080p at high settings. And yet they foist this garbage on us, with the rationale that if enough of us buy it, game developers will be forced to constrain their games to suit the lower-quality hardware.
The company is legitimately acting as though it's a monopoly, and I desperately want to see AMD and Intel come and eat their lunch.
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Gemini
nVidia seems to be doing what many smartphone are doing now. Give you less for more and say the software will make up for the hardware limitations the product provides. For GPUs, this is not a smart play given many developers are dealing with various types of hardware and it much easier to scale performance off raw performance rather than drivers or proprietary software a gpu may offer
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nVidia seems to be doing what many smartphone are doing now. Give you less for more and say the software will make up for the hardware limitations the product provides. For GPUs, this is not a smart play given many developers are dealing with various types of hardware and it much easier to scale performance off raw performance rather than drivers or proprietary software a gpu may offer
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James
Didn't they indicate that they wouldn't be giving performance gains for the same or less money (Nvidia's Moore's law comment)? This seems to lean into that interpretation a bit.
Stagnating performance at the same or greater cost like we saw with CPUs back in 2012-2016 is disheartening.
On a plus side, maybe it will delay the incoming AI apocalypses by a few days lol.
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Didn't they indicate that they wouldn't be giving performance gains for the same or less money (Nvidia's Moore's law comment)? This seems to lean into that interpretation a bit.
Stagnating performance at the same or greater cost like we saw with CPUs back in 2012-2016 is disheartening.
On a plus side, maybe it will delay the incoming AI apocalypses by a few days lol.
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Chade
Nvidia has basically tried to sell what is essentially a x050 tier card as a x060 tier card. Same thing they did with the 4070. Pure greed. They didn't want to give up the profits they made during the mining boom and shortages, but eventually realised that gamers weren't gullible enough to continue paying those sort of prices, so they've just shuffled the sku's around.
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Nvidia has basically tried to sell what is essentially a x050 tier card as a x060 tier card. Same thing they did with the 4070. Pure greed. They didn't want to give up the profits they made during the mining boom and shortages, but eventually realised that gamers weren't gullible enough to continue paying those sort of prices, so they've just shuffled the sku's around.
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cardigansrule
I play at 1080p (x2 monitors) and I have a 3080. It still lags in some games with RTX on so... But I do agree that 400 is ridiculous for a low end / 1080p video card in 2023. 400 should get you a mid-high end video card (like x80 series). An entry level x60 card should be no more than 200, maybe high 200s for the TI edition? Nvidia has just gotten too greedy.
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I play at 1080p (x2 monitors) and I have a 3080. It still lags in some games with RTX on so... But I do agree that 400 is ridiculous for a low end / 1080p video card in 2023. 400 should get you a mid-high end video card (like x80 series). An entry level x60 card should be no more than 200, maybe high 200s for the TI edition? Nvidia has just gotten too greedy.
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Indian
My cousins 3060ti broke last week (he dropped it taking it to a lan session so no RMA) and he said he will wait for this 4060ti to launch and buy it so at least he will get an upgrade out of this forced, neccessary purchase. I cant wait to see how angry he is gonna be at Nvidia now, being made to pay the same amount of money for pretty much the same performance.
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My cousins 3060ti broke last week (he dropped it taking it to a lan session so no RMA) and he said he will wait for this 4060ti to launch and buy it so at least he will get an upgrade out of this forced, neccessary purchase. I cant wait to see how angry he is gonna be at Nvidia now, being made to pay the same amount of money for pretty much the same performance.
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Ramses1
Imagine if they'll release 4050 and it'll perform the same or worse than 3050. I'm switching for Radeon myself and will buy new cards from them, because this isn't new nvidia vs new radeon , since new gen isn't much, it's more of used nvidia vs new radeon and if I'll have to build someone brand new pc, used parts automatically are out of the question.
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Imagine if they'll release 4050 and it'll perform the same or worse than 3050. I'm switching for Radeon myself and will buy new cards from them, because this isn't new nvidia vs new radeon , since new gen isn't much, it's more of used nvidia vs new radeon and if I'll have to build someone brand new pc, used parts automatically are out of the question.
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Arudanel
nVidia: You can have all the latest features in our latest 1080p card!
Good Guy Steve: It's not worth it. In fact, I'm gonna tell you that in the START of the video, because unlike nVidia, I have respect for my viewers and both their wallets and their time. So don't buy it, if you got free time after, I'll explain why.
Thanks Steve!
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nVidia: You can have all the latest features in our latest 1080p card!
Good Guy Steve: It's not worth it. In fact, I'm gonna tell you that in the START of the video, because unlike nVidia, I have respect for my viewers and both their wallets and their time. So don't buy it, if you got free time after, I'll explain why.
Thanks Steve!
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