Nvidia announces RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards in both 8GB and 16GB varieties, plus an 8GB RTX 4060

eurogamer.net:

Nvidia has officially unveiled its first mid-range Ada Lovelace graphics card, the RTX 4060 Ti, with both 8GB and 16GB variants at $399/£389 and $499 respectively. The 8GB card is the first to be released, with sales beginning on May 24th, while the 16GB variant debuts in July. The firm also detailed its mainstream RTX 4060 GPU, also coming in July, to debut at $299.

All three models ought to offer a reasonable boost in performance over their predecessors, while also adding DLSS 3 frame generation — which is perhaps more impactful on mid-range hardware than it is on the likes of the RTX 4090 which is powerful enough without it. That should allow the 4060 family to be a reasonable choice for gaming at 1080p with maxed settings (including RT / DLSS), or at 1440p with some settings reductions.

On average, Nvidia is claiming the 4060 Ti is 1.15x faster than the 3060 Ti and 1.6x faster than the 2060 Super (1.7x and 2.6x faster with DLSS 3). Similarly, the RTX 4060 is 1.2x faster than RTX 3060 and 1.6x faster than RTX 2060 (1.7x and 2.3x with DLSS 3).

For now, let's focus on the RTX 4060 Ti. It's quite unusual to see multiple variants of a single GPU launched together, although Nvidia did try to pull this off with the RTX 4080 last year. That card was announced with 16GB and 12GB SKUs, each with substantially different specifications, before the firm 'unlaunched' the 12GB model, later relabelling it as the RTX 4070 Ti.

This time, the two RTX 4060 Ti cards appear identical apart from their VRAM allocation, with identical core counts (4352), memory bandwidth (554GB/s effective), power usage (160W TDP) and so on. That's less confusing than the RTX 4080 situation, but paying $100 extra for a 16GB model may rub consumers the