Well, I have got some more bad news about the upcoming RTX 4060 Ti.
A new rumor suggests that Nvidia has decided to further cripple the performance of this
graphics card.
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Our trusty GPU leaker, Kopite7kimi has just dropped a bombshell on Twitter.
According to his latest tweet, the RTX 4060 Ti is going to have a TDP of only 160W!
That's a huge drop from the originally reported 220W.
In fact it's even lower than the 200W TDP of RTX 3060 Ti.
Heck it's even lower than the 170W TDP of RTX 3060.
Which means, the performance of the RTX 4060 Ti might be even worse than what I earlier
predicted in my previous video which is linked down below.
So here is the problem.
The RTX 4060 Ti is set to be the first desktop graphics card with an AD106 GPU, which is
a tiny chip with a 190 square mm die size.
And you know what that means?
A major reduction in CUDA cores!
According to the leaks, the RTX 4060 Ti is only coming with 4,352 CUDA cores, compared
to the RTX 4070 Ti which has 7,680 CUDA cores.
That's a whopping 76% reduction!
Typically, the performance of Nvidia GPUs across the same generation correlates with
the number of CUDA cores they possess.
And with a reduction of over 76% CUDA cores, we're looking at a performance level on par
with the RTX 3070 and only 10% faster than the RTX 3060 Ti.
But wait, it gets even worse.
In previous generations, Nvidia equipped the RTX 3060 Ti, 3070 and 3070 Ti with the same
amount of video RAM.
But this time, the RTX 4060 Ti will not get the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 4070 Ti.
Instead of getting 12GB of faster GDDR6X VRAM, it will still use the same stale 8GB GDDR6
VRAM.
This would make the RTX 4060 Ti, the first RTX 40 series desktop graphics card that will
not use the current GDDR6X memory technology.
And to add insult to injury, Nvidia has reduced the memory bus to a puny 128-bits.
That's half of what the RTX 3060 Ti offered, remember it came with a 256-bits memory bus.
Even the original RTX 3060 came with a higher memory bus of 192-bit.s.
So what does that do to the net memory bandwidth?
It reduced it by a whopping 75%!
The RTX 4060 Ti's memory bandwidth will be only 288 GB/s.
For comparison, the RTX 4070 Ti offers 504 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Even the RTX 3060 Ti offers a higher 448 GB/s memory bandwidth.
This is crazy!
But unfortunately, this is the reality we're facing with the RTX 4060 Ti GPU.
It's almost like Nvidia doesn't care.
Jensen Huang must be laying on top of a pile of money manically laughing at PC gamers.
Now we already know that RTX 40 series Ada Lovelace chips are made from the new TSMC
4nm process technology.
They are supposed to deliver some serious performance-per-watt compared to last gen
GPUs.
And you only have to look at the benchmark results of the RTX 4090, 4080 and even 4070ti
to see that they're no slouch in the performance department.
So you must be wondering why Nvidia has decided to reduce the TDP of RTX 4060 Ti?
Well, the rumor has it that Nvidia feels pretty confident in their product lineup after re-evaluating
the GPU competitive landscape with AMD.
It's possible that Nvidia thinks that they don't need as much performance as originally
planned to compete against the budget Radeon graphics cards.
Interestingly, the reference board for the RTX 4060 Ti, codenamed PG190, is tiny but
it packs a punch with a 16-pin ATX 12V power connector.
Rumor has it, it's set for a whopping 300W at its signal pins.
There will be adapters included to convert two 8-pin PCIe into one 300 W 16-pin power
connector.
But if you are wondering whether RTX 4060 Ti will squeeze out the max performance from
the AD106 GPU, the answer is no.
Initially.
With a major cut in CUDA cores, my previous estimate of a 10% performance boost over the
RTX 3060 Ti is now looking questionable.
With barely two-thirds the memory bandwidth of the RTX 3060 Ti, I'm really wondering if
RTX 4060 Ti will even live up to my initial expectations that were low to begin with.
But here's the thing, the new TSMC 4nm process technology used in the RTX 40 series Ada Lovelace
chips delivers better performance-per-watt than last gen GPUs, so maybe NVIDIA is feeling
confident in their product lineup.
Who knows, they might even squeeze out more performance from RTX 4060 Ti by increasing
its core-clock frequency.
But at a rumored price point of $550 to $600, will anyone be willing to shell out that kind
of cash for RTX 4060 Ti?
We are so used to expecting more power for the same price with every new generation of
GPUs.
But now, it looks like Nvidia thinks they can keep raising prices for just a small boost
in performance.
This can't go on forever.
At some point, people will just stop buying the GPUs altogether.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we're there yet.
Nvidia's RTX 40 series GPUs are selling quite well.
Even the much maligned $800 RTX 4070 Ti is selling just fine in the US and abroad.
I think It's a bummer, because as long as people keep buying these expensive cards,
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang will keep raising the prices.
Honestly, the GPU market is such a bummer these days.
I snagged an RTX 3060 Ti last year when I bought the Founders Edition at my local Best
Buy for its original price of $399.
At the time, I wondered if it was worth buying a nearly 2-year-old card at full retail launch
price.
But now, after seeing the seriously lackluster price-to-performance ratio of the RTX 4060
Ti, I'm glad that I made that move
Overall, I think the RTX 4060 Ti is going to be a disappointment in terms of its price
to performance ratio.
It's clear that Nvidia is focusing on maintaining their profits rather than offering the best
value to consumers.
While the new 4nm process technology does bring some improvements in performance-per-watt,
the significant reductions in CUDA cores and memory bandwidth make it hard to justify buying
RTX 4060 Ti at its rumored price.
If you're in the market for a new GPU, it may be worth considering other options or
waiting for more information to be released.
But if money is no object, and you want the absolute best GPU for video editing, then
checkout this video over here.
In this video I take a closer look at the latest pugetbench results comparing the video
editing performance of RTX 4090 and RX 7900 XTX.
So go ahead and watch that video, and I will see you guys over there.
Bye!