Is it worth getting the 4060 Ti 8GB, or should I hold out for a 4060 Ti 16GB

[Quadsword]

Background: I don't do 4k gaming. I'm the kind of guy that will crank the settings down as low as they'll go (without turning the game into a blurry mess, of course) to maximize my frame rate. Generally, I'm cool with a mix of medium to high settings and a frame rate that stays above 80.

I need something to replace the fossil that is my 2060, but I've looked at retailers all around me and none of them have 4060 Ti 16GB cards in stock. For most of them, their estimate was end of January, beginning of February when they'll have them in stock again (realistically, they probably won't have them in stock until March). Meanwhile, I could get a 4060 Ti 8GB and have it on my doorstop ready to install by Christmas Eve.

Path of Exile 2 runs surprisingly well on this old rig (never went below 80 fps), but Baldur's Gate 3 was down in the 30s (granted, that's in act 3 which is notoriously unoptimized), and there's absolutely no chance this thing will run Monster Hunter Wilds unless someone at Capcom works some black magic with the optimization.

I know the 5000 series cards aren't far off, so maybe it'd be best to just skip the 4000 series and wait until then?

[ˢᵈˣ FatCat]

You waited so long from 2000series another wait shouldn't be a problem

My opinion is just buying TI on the low end is not wise, why not just go the 4070,
TI is always the candy on top

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Wait until RTX 50 hits consumers; then jump on an RTX 4070 Ti or better.
All 4060 is trash, don't buy, especially right now. All the RTX 40 prices are very soon going to take a nose-dive.

[Set-115689]

5060 ti might be pricey? Might have16 gb minimum?

5060 might not get that much of an upgrade. 8 gb vram but potentially some software upscaling improvements. Faster cpu clock speeds. Might launch in March?

Tariffs increasing prices?

Cpu model? Amount of system ram?

Is it a specific setting. Cpu limited or gpu limited at the low fps points?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Judging by the specs for 5060 and 5060 Ti, even those look fairly weak.

While one looks to have 8GB and another 16GB, even if GDDR7 Memory, it's still 128-bit bandwidth.

Always aim for xx70 card or better; same with AMD going with nothing less then x700 card or better. If you want to do 1440p Ultra, then go with xx80 / x800 card

But for RTX 50 series, the 5070 should be beefy enough for those looking to have smooth stable FPS @ 1440p/16:9

The way it is now; if you can't afford to jump on a good GPU for $600+ then you might as well just go buy the latest Xbox or PS.

[_I_]

nvidia should bring back the numbers from xx10-xx50 for desktop gpus, and ditch the whole super thing, and keep ti only for the similar specd gpu with slightly higher core/ram clocks

the whole mess of 4070 super/ti/super+ti should have been spread out more
4070 vs 4070sti having nearly twice the cores/shaders/rt units, should put them in different classes
turn the 4060 to 4050 where it belongs, and the mobile 4050 to 4030m where it should go
then whatever would be turned in to that gens 710-730 to 4010 or something so you know what core you are getting with it

keep xx50 at the entry level gaming gpu
if you buy a x60 card should be main stream not cut down on pci lanes or anything


it always amazes me that amd, nvidia, intel have such troubles naming their products something that makes sense compared to previous gens

[C1REX]

4060Ti is generally considered a bad value.

New cards should be announced very soon and I wouldn’t buy anything with less than 12GB of memory now. We have games that already don’t work properly with 8GB and it will likely get worse soon.

Xbox series S was holding specs requirements down but since devs are slowly dropping support for Xbox altogether we can expect ps5 like specs to be the new recommended.

I recommend to wait for new GPUs to be announced soon or to buy older Radeon 6750XT 12GB if waiting is not an option.

[smokerob79]

wow.....so much old info here its not even funny......

1.....bit rate does not matter like it use to......current cards using DDR6 or the new ones coming with DDR7 dont need the same bit rates the old cards needed simply because of the speed increase.....total bandwidth has never been higher and we have current cards with more total bandwidth at a 128bit bus then a lot of the older cards had a 384bit bus or even a 512bit bus

example.....old school GTX580 had a bus rate of 384bit....total bandwidth was 192.4GBs......current 4060ti with 128bit bus has a total bandwidth of 288.GBs


2....cut down PCI-E lanes mean NOTHING.....real world a current card with only 8 lanes of gen 4 has the same total bandwidth as 16 lanes of PCI-E 3 and all the cards that using them are to low on the stack to have the bandwidth for higher lane counts.....

FYI.....you could cut a 4090 down to 8 lanes of gen 5 and still not bottleneck anything......yes i know the 4090 is gen 4...that is why it would work on 8 lanes of gen 5 without bottlenecks

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

The only Nvidia RTX 40 series GPU's worth getting are nothing below the RTX 4070Ti.

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

The way it is now; if you can't afford to jump on a good GPU for $600+ then you might as well just go buy the latest Xbox or PS.

That's pretty silly, considering how many other things PC gaming brings to the table beyond "MOAR FPS! RAAAAA!"

[Quadsword]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

The way it is now; if you can't afford to jump on a good GPU for $600+ then you might as well just go buy the latest Xbox or PS.

Unfortunately, that seems to be what everything is moving towards. If you can't afford the most expensive hardware, then just don't bother. Part of me hopes that the handheld PC market will grow to a point that developers can't ignore it anymore and are forced to optimize for low end hardware.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

You only get 8 express lanes with the 4060 and 4060ti. This goes in a 16 lane slot. 8 lanes are just wasted on this stupid, cringe, cheap design.

This graphic card is so stupidly made that manufacturers started installing m.2 ssd key on them because the original design is so terribly wasteful. Nvidias stingy engineering and willingness to be so wasteful of pcb like that, then charge customers in such ways offering less hardware, gimped devices and poor value, I can honestly say I will never get nvidia again.

Pushing gimmicky features that slime everything with a shiny pearl coat isn't helping anything either.

No, don't get nvidia unless you get 4070 or up. Everything below that on the 40 series is garbage and poorly designed and gimped/missing/disabled hardware. The problem with getting a 4070 though is you're still getting ripped off, but at least you're getting something decent that's not missing half it's hardware. The other problem with the 4070 is the stingy amount of vram.

That's why I never recommend nvidia anymore because you just can't win at all. If you get something good, you get terribly ripped off. If you try to save money, you end up wasting it on trash.

[AmaiAmai]

Considering new GPUs are inbound and it was bad value before new GPUs came, I would not. Then agian, who knows how prices will be set in 2025.

Me? I simply skip most games that need a GPU like that anyway because they are bad on every level.

[🎂⁧⁧Sneakydude555]

That Intel B580 GPU is looking pretty good right now......

[Talby]

sadly B580 is out of stock for the most part - last year I did "upgrade" from a 5700xt 8g on 1080p to 3070ti 8gb on 1440p mainly due to price gouging on the 12gb models and was able to grab it for $550 so only slightly bloated price.

Agree looks like the 4070 12gb are close to the same price when I upgraded last year ($520+), OP if you are wanting to get 1440p that not a bad kit lest you wait it out (and if you can "suffer" with 12gb lol)

[Corona Scurrae]

If the rumors are true then 5060ti will ship with 16gb of memory. Wait and see how that performs and then decide. 8gb is not enough anymore and it will only get worse due to how negligent graphics pipeline devs have become over the years.
And I wouldn't take a b580. It's still not there and given Intel's current predicament I doubt they will release a dgpu after celestial.