Nvidia will release the $499 RTX 4060 Ti 16GB on July 18. This GPU addresses one of the two major criticisms of the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, namely the lack of VRAM, but does nothing to address the broader criticism of the price. In fact, the opposite is true, making the already expensive $399 RTX 4060 Ti 8GB look like a bargain by comparison.

This information comes from MEGAsizeGPU, which just recently revealed the RTX 4060 release date. The leak references what appears to be an internal Nvidia document, but does not reveal the date of the review embargo.

As the old saying goes, there are no bad graphics cards, only bad prices. (An RTX 4060 Ti 8GB is not a good card at $399 if it doesn't significantly outperform the RTX 3060 Ti or AMD's RX 6700 XT; it has already been confirmed that the 16GB card is identical to the 8GB version, and the extra 8GB is not worth the extra $100. [If Ti had been called RTX 4060 (and RTX 4060 had been RTX 4050) and priced $100 less, we'd be saying something completely different Nvidia scored an own goal this generation. [But that's not the only interesting RTX 4060 Ti news: according to Andreas Schilling of Hardwareluxx, AIB partners are not too keen on the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. They know that the card is not cost-effective. I spoke to an AIB representative at Computex and he too was very favorable toward the 16GB card.

Nvidia is reportedly not releasing a Founders Edition RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. Therefore, AIB partners will be promoting it.

It will be interesting to see how both 4060 Ti models fare in the coming months, if not further for the RTX 5060, but given that the RTX 50 series is probably two years away, these will definitely have a long life.

Price aside, it is great to see 16GB of VRAM on a card that mainstream gamers will be using for years to come. It also provides a bit of future-proofing by allowing games released in the next few years to bypass memory capacity limitations, even if the AD106 GPU's rendering performance and memory bus reach their limits before that time.

A single RTX 4060 Ti model with 12GB and a 192-bit bus for $349-399 would have been better received. But money does strange things to people and companies. The mining boom is over, but the desire for profit remains.