MSI Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB benchmarks come out slower than 8GB model

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has arrived to little fanfare, due in a big half to each Nvidia and its add in board companions (AIBs) deciding to not market the GPU, or ship out copies for assessment. MSI Insider Weekly has now examined the most recent GeForce graphics card towards the 8GB mannequin, and located the 16GB card is definitely barely slower than its sibling in some circumstancess regardless of costing $100 extra.

Moreover their VRAM capability, each the 16GB and 8GB fashions have similar specs, together with cores, clock velocity, and reminiscence bus dimension, so it stands to cause that there wouldn’t be a lot distinction between the 2 in benchmarking assessments exterior notably VRAM-intensive video games. However for the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB card to be slower than its 8GB sibling? That’s absolutely out of the query, proper?

Properly, that’s simply what MSI Insider Weekly present in its livestream evaluating the 2 pixel pushers. It’s essential to state that the distinction was inside the margin for error, however it’s nonetheless there. The 16GB mannequin carried out worse than the 8GB one in F1 23, Rainbow Six Siege, and Cyberpunk 2077 on Extremely settings, whereas the 2 got here out about the identical in Hogwarts Legacy and Fortnite. A silver lining is that the 16GB model truly got here out marginally forward on CSGO, however that was the one sport the place it did so.

TechPowerUp counsel a cause for the more serious efficiency might be that, “the upper density 16GB reminiscence is imposing a barely larger latency, or having a negligibly larger energy draw,” and that Nvidia might have made the 16GB variant extra interesting by, “enabling all 18 TPCs on the AD106 (the RTX 4060 Ti allows 17); and if the AD106 helps GDDR6X, they need to have dialed up reminiscence velocity to 21 Gbps.”

At any price, it appears to be like just like the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB could be very unlikely to finish up on our information to the best graphics card. Try our Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB review to get an concept of what the 16GB mannequin is able to, simply keep in mind it has double the VRAM on the expense of one other $100 added to the value tag.