For a novelty they ask 500 dollars
Nvidia today announced the start of sales of the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB graphics card . Unlike all other launches, this time the company did not want to give journalists a novelty for review, either before the launch or after. That is, today we will not see reviews, and the first ones should be expected in the coming days, when someone buys such a card and conducts tests. But the first tests were conducted by Nvidia itself and shared the results.
As you can see, even Nvidia found only two games where the 16 GB version performed better than the 8 GB version. These are A Plague Tale: Requiem and Resident Evil 4 Remake. Both are known for being very memory intensive.
Nobody wants a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB?
Of course, if you test several dozen modern games, there will obviously be other such projects, but, apparently, there will be very few of them. Also, remember, the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB costs $500, which is only $100 less than the RTX 4070, which is much more powerful. Today, using the example of a large review, we have already seen that the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB is less profitable than the RTX 4060 , and the 16GB version will be even worse in this indicator.
By the way, the TechPowerUp resource reports that they tried to connect all their acquaintances in order to get a video card before the start of sales, but nothing came of it. Moreover, Nvidia simply did not release a fresh driver in advance, so the tests could still be incorrect.
But that’s not all. The source contacted a number of German stores, and they confirmed that the start of sales is formally scheduled for today, at 15:00 local time, but there are simply no cards available.
If you go to the large aggregator ComputerBase, there is not a single offer there either. Earlier there was already news that video card manufacturers are not particularly willing to release a new version, so it may not be so easy to buy it.
Recall that AMD is also preparing to release a new video card with 16 GB of memory , but, unlike Nvidia, it will create it by cutting the older model, and not improving the younger one.
