‘Performance gain Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is on average 0 to 2 percent’
According to an extensive review by TechPowerUp, the recently released Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB provides an average performance gain of between 0 and 2 percent compared to the virtually identical GeForce RTX 4060 Ti variant with 8GB of VRAM.
It medium tested 25 games and compared the framerate of those games in 1080p, 1440p and 2160p resolution. In the first category, TechPowerUp registered no difference, in 1440p it was an increase of 1 percent and in 2160p it was 2 percent. The reviewer therefore speaks of a marginal performance difference when the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is compared with the 8GB version. Nvidia released the 16GB-4060 Ti earlier this month for a suggested retail price of 559 euros, which is 110 euros more than the original 8GB version.
As far as minimum frame rate is concerned, the differences between the two video cards are slightly larger. In 1080p, 1440p and 2160p resolution, performance gains average 1, 2 and 6 percent respectively. TechPowerUp emphasizes that the video card is not intended for gaming at higher resolutions, so that this performance gain is not significant in practice. An outlier, for example, is The Last of Us Part I, which achieves an average of 27fps in 4k on an RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. On an RTX 4060 Ti 8GB that is 22fps. Despite a large percentage increase in the frame rate, the absolute number better reflects what that means in practice.
The review does speak highly of the energy efficiency of the video card, which is still relatively economical despite the extra VRAM with an increase in energy consumption of between 6 and 10W. According to the medium, the ray tracing of the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is also still superior to the ray tracing of competitors; the card would perform equally to the Radeon RX 6800 XT in this category.
The 4060 Ti 16GB has the same specifications as the 8GB model, apart from the memory. The new 16GB variant has 4352 CUDA cores, a 2535MHz boost clock frequency and 2250MHz GDDR6 memory. The memory bandwidth is also unchanged.