NVIDIA Quietly Launches 16GB RTX 4060 Ti With No Review Coverage

NVIDIA has quietly launched the ridiculed RTX 4060 Ti 16GB with no review coverage leaving reviewers no choice but to go out and buy the card themselves as well as become the only people who will buy the card.

RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Launched

The RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM has launched for an additional $100 over the $399 price tag of the 8GB variant for what will likely be the same performance, especially with the weak 128-bit memory bus and PCIe 8x interface. I’ve taken a look on both Scan and Newegg for this card to get an idea of what AIBs took an interest following the reports of many of them being uninterested in promoting the card. NVIDIA themselves has stated that cards will be available from ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac which is the expected list.

Looking at Scan and Newegg, not all of these partners are listed but those who are have fewer models. Most notably Gigabyte only has two variants listed on their site as opposed to the six they had for the 8GB variant. In terms of pricing, ASUS takes the cake with the Strix OC at £594.98 followed by the ProArt model at £554.99. All models currently are listed as either unavailable or pre-order with some due dates of July 25th and August 4th meaning reviews may come a lot later than expected but we do have some benchmarks from NVIDIA themselves.

NVIDIA’s Performance Benchmarks

In the latest Game Ready Driver article which introduced game-ready support for Portal: Prelude with RTX IO, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Remnant II, NVIDIA shared some benchmarks for the 16GB card. NVIDIA provided two graphs for both the 8GB and 16GB variants paired up with an i9 12900k at 1080p max settings with DLSS and RT on in supported games. The performance is identical as expected with the only change being a performance drop in both a plague tale requiem and Resident Evil Remake because they used different game settings between the cards.

I understand now why they didn’t bother with review samples as this card literally only exists to shut up those who whinge about 8GB of VRAM meaning it also hasn’t achieved its only purpose. For $499 and more for the AIB cards, this card is definitely one to hide under the rug.