Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti rumoured to cost $450 at launch in May

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The expected launch of the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti(opens in new tab) has been penned in for May by the rumour mongers and, as we shuffle through April, we're starting to hear noises about the pricing for the green team's next most affordable graphics card. With a potential sticker price of $450 the RTX 4060 Ti would be only $50 more expensive than the last generation's RTX 3060 Ti.

Just a bit more expensive, then, not a lot more expensive. I guess we've got to take the wins where we can find them, however meagre they seem.

The rumour has come from sources cultivated by the Red Gaming Tech channel(opens in new tab), reportedly from the same source which provided an early $599 figure for the recently launched RTX 4070(opens in new tab). And I've got to say it scans with what we know about the card.

We're expecting performance a little beyond the RTX 3070, which itself was a $499 graphics card. And, given the way pricing has worked out with the RTX 4070 being around RTX 3080 performance for $100 less, $50 less than the RTX 3070's original price point kinda makes sense.

I mean, I still don't like it. Given that we are really paring back the actual silicon on offer as we get lower down the RTX 40-series stack, it's harder and harder to argue convincingly the cards ought to be priced higher than their direct forebears. When Nvidia is increasingly relying on the (admittedly tangible and tantalising) promise of DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation to deliver the extra performance, you're starting to pay more for improvements to the software ecosystem than the hardware itself.

Maybe that's fair given the impressive work that's gone into Nvidia's upscaling and frame interpolation features, but it's hard to shake the feeling you're paying more