No Official Review Program for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB Cards

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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.



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[sethmatrix7]

Lol they know it's shit

 

[R0H1T]

Maybe they want everyone to forget this card exists? Kinda like the TITAN Z

 

[ixi]

Well, these gpu will hold for few years with 16Džī capacity unlike 8GB variant

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I guess that’s one way to drive sales—make reviewers buy their own cards.

 

[Daven]

The $499 price point should be for the 4080 but the 4060Ti is only 20% faster than the two generations old 2080 and way slower than the 3080. Its no wonder these chips are controversial.

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.

 

[Hyderz]

4060ti should have 12gb not 16... it will lose steam before fully utilize the vram in future titles....

 

[R0H1T]

It should be called a 4050Ti & ideally priced at least $100-150 cheaper.

I guess JHH though everyone was a fan of their BS & would buy anything they threw at the masses?

 

[ixi]

It should be called a 4050Ti & ideally priced at least $100-150 cheaper.

I guess JHH though everyone was a fan of their BS & would buy anything they threw at the masses?

Sadly people are doing that and in that count many are from TPU too. At least it makes them happier.

 

[MrDweezil]

I do think people are willing to pay extra for more memory as "future proofing", but $100 is just too steep. If that comes down to $50, its at least sorta viable instead of something they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

 

[Double-Click]

Well you don't typically hand the executioner his axe beforehand so...yeah.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

It should be called a 4050Ti & ideally priced at least $100-150 cheaper.

I guess JHH though everyone was a fan of their BS & would buy anything they threw at the masses?

It IS a 4050ti, the 106 dies are almost never used as xx6x tier cards. These are usually cut down 104s.

The 4060ti should have been a 8gb 4050ti for $200-250 at most.

 

[Assimilator]

100 more bucks on top of a card that's already overpriced, why did NVIDIA even bother? It's not like double the VRAM is going to fix AD106's anemic performance.

 

[cellar door]

I'm giving this my "Best News I've heard Today" award to NV for admitting they are taking advantage of budget gamers worldwide.


The less you buy, the less you save - Jenesen 2023 edition

 

[sLowEnd]

Heh. I guess Nvidia is just as unenthusiastic about this thing as their AIBs are.

 

[N/A]

It has been reviewed already. same thing except in the last of us part 1 or whatever, hardware unboxed kept beating it to death and now this exists because of that.
just unlaunch the 4060Ti 16 and lower the price of 4070 by $100.

 

[kapone32]

I do believe that the reason for no Reviews is how this is going to look against cards that have a 16GB frame buffer. I can see it competing with Intel's Arc 770 but even just a bare 6800 should blow this away. Funny thing is at $499 US it is about the same as a 6800 or even some 6800XTs.

 

[Bomby569]

It's the same card with more vram, what would even be the point in reviewing it again, can't say I'm surprised.

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.

 

[Eskimonster]

Bandwith and Vram don´t match at all. I hope they take a giant loss,

 

[eidairaman1]

The $499 price point should be for the 4080 but the 4060Ti is only 20% faster than the two generations old 2080 and way slower than the 3080. Its no wonder these chips are controversial.

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.

$550 at most for High End AIBs for desktop, after that Professional Cards.

 

[Chrispy_]

100 more bucks on top of a card that's already overpriced, why did NVIDIA even bother? It's not like double the VRAM is going to fix AD106's anemic performance.

100 bucks for four extra GDDR6 packages that have an upper value limit for single, non-negotiated purchase of $6.75 each?
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.

 

[Dragokar]

That simply tells you how effed up the whole lineup is.

 

[fevgatos]

100 bucks for four extra GDDR6 packages that have an upper value limit for single, non-negotiated purchase of $6.75 each?
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.

So the 8gb 4060ti is a great deal, since you get a 100$ discount while only losing like 6$ worth of memory. Insane

 

[bug]

I do think people are willing to pay extra for more memory as "future proofing", but $100 is just too steep. If that comes down to $50, its at least sorta viable instead of something they'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

If by that you mean the 8GB should be no more then $350 and the 16GB no more than $400, then I'm with you.

 

[Keivz]

I would expect less than 50 non reviewers worldwide will purchase this at msrp. It will be a fun product for review purchasers as a comparison piece of hardware but in no way is it worth the sticker price. Anyone in their right mind with a $500 gpu budget would be better off going with a 3070 or better yet a 6800 xt.
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.