Should you buy an RTX 4060 Ti or one of its eight biggest rivals? We've pored through the data to find out.
The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB is one of Nvidia's most important graphics cards. Like its RTX 3060, RTX 2060, and GTX 1060 predecessors, the RTX 4060 Ti will likely be a very good seller for team green. At $399, it's priced at what I'd consider to be a mainstream ceiling. From there, it's a big jump up to the RTX 4070 at $599.
There's also the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. We'll skip over that, as the $100 premium Nvidia is asking for what is an otherwise identical card puts it too close to the superior RTX 4070. The tl;dr is that the 16GB card's performance is the same as the 8GB card. Who knows what will happen in the future though. The trend of VRAM hogging console ports may lead to increased memory demands in the future. 8GB is adequate.
The RTX 4060 Ti will remain on the market for at least the next two or three years, and it's sure to drop in price over that time. However, its feature set and characteristics will remain. There are three major ones worth highlighting, They are its support for DLSS 3 and Frame Generation, and its power efficiency. The first two can be overstated at times, but they're an excellent way to boost your frame rates beyond that all important 60FPS threshold.
We've collated our benchmark data into some easy to digest points that highlight the differences between the RTX 4060 Ti, it's RTX 40-series siblings, its predecessors and AMD competitors. We also give our thoughts on each head-to-head match up. The raw data can be found at the end of the article.