Realistically, we can expect that neither version of the 4060 Ti is going to be "the one to get" when Nvidia still wants to convince you to buy the most expensive card possible. But if Nvidia makes 2 versions (whether or not the VRAM actually affects performance), then they wouldn't actually want anybody to buy the 8GB version because the 16GB version will be more profitable. If it costs them an extra $20 to make the 16GB version, it won't cost you $20 more to buy it. It will cost you $50 more, or $100 more.
It's extremely common to make low end products look like a bad value on purpose, in order to make customers believe they are somehow getting a better deal by spending more money on a higher margin product. It's a freshman-level mind-trick called decoy pricing.
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