Nvidia reportedly prepping a 16GB RTX 4060 Ti for July
pcgamer.comNvidia's RTX 40-series graphics card generation seems to be one of U-turns. First we had the unlaunching of its RTX 4080 12GB(opens in new tab) card and now we're seeing rumours of a 16GB version of its upcoming RTX 4060 Ti. Which is all kinds of odd.
The rumours have all sprung from a single set of tweets from Zed Wang(opens in new tab) (via Videocardz(opens in new tab)), a regular GPU leakerer, who has mentioned release dates of RTX 40-series cards in the past which have more or less lined up.
Their latest lists the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, and RTX 4060 8GB cards citing the first launching at the end of May, with the other two cards following in July. The 8GB versions of the RTX 4060/Ti themselves aren't a surprise; we had been expecting that VRAM capacity from the get-go. But that 16GB level certainly is.
We are pretty certain about many of the RTX 4060 Ti cards' specifications by now, with an ADA106 GPU sporting 4,352 CUDA cores, a bunch of extra cache, and a 128-bit memory bus. That last one is the key one here if we're talking about video memory capacities, because it limits the amount available to be attached to the card.
GPU: AD106Architecture: Ada LovelaceLithography: TSMC 4NCUDA cores: 4,352Memory: 8GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6Memory bus: 128-bitMemory bandwidth: 288GB/sTGP: 160WRelease date: May 2023 | July 2023
With only 16Gb (2GB) modules available for GDDR6 as a maximum, you're going to be severely restricted by how much memory you can physically fit on a board. And with a 128-bit aggregated memory bus you can only work in multiples of four in order to maintain balance across each of the 32-bit discrete memory bus built into the GPU.
That means you can have 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities. Nvidia was
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