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They try to push the card as not being a price hike over the last gen, but everything indicates to me that this card was designed as more of a 3060 successor than a 3060 Ti successor, and even that card came with 50% more VRAM at an almost 20% lower launch price. When the 3060 launched with 12GB at $330 well over 2 years ago, it felt reasonably safe to assume that there would be no excuse for going with less VRAM than that at higher price points in the next generation. And yet the $400 "4060 Ti" gets not only an amount of VRAM that's likely to be problematic even for 1080p ultra moving forward, but also a downgraded memory bus to ensure that performance will be crippled when that VRAM buffer is exceeded.
The only way I could see 8GB somewhat justified on a $400 card at this point is if it were to at least offer a decent performance boost over its similarly-priced predecessor, but the 4060 Ti doesn't even have that, generally not pushing more than single-digit gains over the 3060 Ti, and sometimes even worse performance than that card at the 1440p resolution that most would expect a $400 card to be able to handle.
Really, this card should have been what Nvidia launched as the 4060, while the 4060 Ti should have been a cut-down 4070 with 12GB of memory. The upcoming "4060 Ti 16GB" is not a reasonable option either, as they are asking an extra $100 more for just 8GB of additional VRAM, while apparently not offering any other performance gains, making the value proposition significantly worse for most of today's titles.
The only way I could see 8GB somewhat justified on a $400 card at this point is if it were to at least offer a decent performance boost over its similarly-priced predecessor, but the 4060 Ti doesn't even have that, generally not pushing more than single-digit gains over the 3060 Ti, and sometimes even worse performance than that card at the 1440p resolution that most would expect a $400 card to be able to handle.
Really, this card should have been what Nvidia launched as the 4060, while the 4060 Ti should have been a cut-down 4070 with 12GB of memory. The upcoming "4060 Ti 16GB" is not a reasonable option either, as they are asking an extra $100 more for just 8GB of additional VRAM, while apparently not offering any other performance gains, making the value proposition significantly worse for most of today's titles.
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