Tuesday, July 11th 2023
No Official Review Program for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB Cards
NVIDIA is reported to be taking a hands off approach prior to the launch of its GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB GPU next week—rumored to take place on July 18. Murmurs from last week posited that add-in card (AIC) partners were not all that confident in the variant's prospects, with very little promotional activity lined up. NVIDIA itself is not releasing a Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB model, so it will be relying on board partners to get custom design units sent out to press outlets/reviewers. According to Hardware Unboxed, as posted on Twitter earlier today, no hardware will be distributed to the media: "Now there's no official review program for this model, there will be no FE version and it seems that NVIDIA and their partners really don't want to know about it. Every NVIDIA partner I've spoken to so far has said they won't be providing review samples, and they're not even sure when their model will be available."
Their announcement continued: "So I don't know when you'll be able to view our review, but I will be buying one as soon as I can. I expect coverage will be pretty thin and that's probably the plan, the release strategy here is similar to that of the RTX 3080 12 GB." TPU can confirm that test samples have not been sent out by NVIDIA's board partners, so a retail unit will be purchased (out of pocket) for reviewing purposes. Previous reports have theorized that not many custom models will be available at launch, with the series MSRP of $499 not doing it many favors in terms of buyer interest. MSI has prepared a new white GAMING X design for the 16 GB variant, so it is good to see at least one example of an AIB putting the effort in...but it would be nice to get a press sample.
Sources:
Hardware Unboxed Tweet, VideoCardz
Their announcement continued: "So I don't know when you'll be able to view our review, but I will be buying one as soon as I can. I expect coverage will be pretty thin and that's probably the plan, the release strategy here is similar to that of the RTX 3080 12 GB." TPU can confirm that test samples have not been sent out by NVIDIA's board partners, so a retail unit will be purchased (out of pocket) for reviewing purposes. Previous reports have theorized that not many custom models will be available at launch, with the series MSRP of $499 not doing it many favors in terms of buyer interest. MSI has prepared a new white GAMING X design for the 16 GB variant, so it is good to see at least one example of an AIB putting the effort in...but it would be nice to get a press sample.
52 Comments on No Official Review Program for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB Cards
Nvidia is trying to upsell every SKU based on additional hardware for RT and DLSS in the chip. A good number of users here at TPU agree that those features are not worth the EXTREME premium Nvidia and AIBs are asking.
And not even full RT. We have to pay 2.5x the historical pricing for higher fidelity of only 10% of the elements in a frame and some upscaling to compensate for well over a 10% performance penalty for that partial fidelity increase.
I guess JHH though everyone was a fan of their BS & would buy anything they threw at the masses?
The 4060ti should have been a 8gb 4050ti for $200-250 at most.
The less you buy, the less you save - Jenesen 2023 edition
just unlaunch the 4060Ti 16 and lower the price of 4070 by $100.
And i don't think it's even a evil plan 4D chess move from Jensen, i would give this one to reviewers and hide the 8GB one under the bed, not the other way around. Now make it 299$/350$ and you'll have a bestseller.
On top of a card that should be $329, not $399 in the first place, based on market value against competing new cards from all three GPU vendors.
First of all, Nvidia aren't paying $6.75 per GDDR6 package. Probably more like $3. Let's add ~100% markup and a reasonable, fair, competitive price for the 4060Ti 16GB is $359. No doubt Asus will release an ROG Strix variant with a 25% premium for a ridiculous, eye-wateringly stupid $619.99 price tag and we'll all have fun calling it dumb.
As far as performance, I think we can expect little to no improvement contrasted to the 8 gb variant—except in very few cases, which may in part be due to the limited bus width, but also because many of the games that led to the outcry over 8 gb of vram have been patched up fairly nicely. We shall see.