If time wasn't a factor there would be a lot of settings to test for each game. And a visual comparison of these settings. Obviously too much work and often pointless to include in a round up. But each time a new game comes out it is interesting to see.
I'd be surprised if Hardware Unboxed or Gamers Nexus didn't purchase one for review.NVIDIA not seeding GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for reviews, AIBs hesitant to participate as well - VideoCardz.com
GPU enthusiasts should not expect many RTX 4060 Ti 16GB reviews There is no official review program for the upcoming graphics card. NVIDIA has decided not to produce a Founders Edition for the soon-to-be-released RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU. However, board parents are still working on making their own...videocardz.com
Seems there might not be reviews of the 16 GB.
At this point people are waiting to dunk on the card, so their video reviews will be pretty profitable just from people wanting to point, laugh and say "I knew it!"I'd be surprised if Hardware Unboxed or Gamers Nexus didn't purchase one for review.
NVIDIA not seeding GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB for reviews, AIBs hesitant to participate as well - VideoCardz.com
GPU enthusiasts should not expect many RTX 4060 Ti 16GB reviews There is no official review program for the upcoming graphics card. NVIDIA has decided not to produce a Founders Edition for the soon-to-be-released RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPU. However, board parents are still working on making their own...videocardz.com
Seems there might not be reviews of the 16 GB.
16 GB isn't going to change the cases where it loses to the 3060 Ti because of the smaller bus and lower memory bandwidth. The memory on the 4060 Ti is even slower than the refreshed 3060 Ti from last year. If they were going to charge an extra $100, they should have at least used faster VRAM so it gets a performance bump.
That would have been a lot more impactful than tossing 16GB clamshelled on a 128bit bus, and probably would be a lower total BOM as well.
Has anyone seen a die shot of AD106 or AD107 with the area of the MC highlighted for size? Some brief searching didn't turn it up.
It'd be interesting to see what the area cost would have been to give AD106 a 192bit bus. That would give it the same bus width as AD104 and they could have done 12GB, but they'd still be able to differentiate between it and the 4070 since it's not a GDDR6X part. That would have been a lot more impactful than tossing 16GB clamshelled on a 128bit bus, and probably would be a lower total BOM as well.
Unlikely.My guess is the L2 cache is tied to the memory controllers. So rather than coming up with some custom layout for that, they just clipped it to 128 bit. Otherwise they would have been committing too much silicon to the cause. That's my hypothesis.
Unlikely.
Both AD106 and AD107 have 128-bit bus, yet one has 24MB L2 cache and the other 32MB.
From where did you get this info? I didn't find anything about It on Nvidia's webpage, only Wiki, but they also used TPU database as source.Full die of AD107 has 32 MB. The desktop 4060 does indeed only have 24 MB enabled but the 4060 Laptop has the full amount.
From where did you get this info? I didn't find anything about It on Nvidia's webpage, only Wiki, but they also used TPU database as source.
My guess is the L2 cache is tied to the memory controllers. So rather than coming up with some custom layout for that, they just clipped it to 128 bit. Otherwise they would have been committing too much silicon to the cause. That's my hypothesis.
As I mentioned before, IMOP overall it would have benefited from a smaller L2 and a bigger bus width that allowed for a 12GB card with actual memory bandwidth AND a marked increase in cahce hits vs Ampere. It would have stayed a "better" card and not had any regressions but we are not worthy of this effort this gen. Watch for the next gen to drop this blessing upon us
Again, this is an AMAZING $250 4050Ti Or $199!?!?!?!? Wow
The L2 sits between the TPC's (SM Clusters), it's not tied to the MC's.
So you're saying we were a MC (well 2x 32 bit) away from 192 bit bus and a 12GB framebuffer? Or one and 10GB buffer?
Yup, with more ROP's to boot, that or 24Gbit GDDR6(X) at 20+Gbps & sticking to the 128bit bus.
Even though there's lots of space around the GPU, all boards that have two chips per memory controller will have to be clamshelled with half the chips on the back side. There's an impedance cost to split the signals to another chip directly below the top one, but it's much less than splitting the signals and running them to two chips side by side. Routing is much easier clamshell as well.If this is the real board, they must have mounted the extra memory on the back, which is a potential cooling issue:
Even though there's lots of space around the GPU, all boards that have two chips per memory controller will have to be clamshelled with half the chips on the back side. There's an impedance cost to split the signals to another chip directly below the top one, but it's much less than splitting the signals and running them to two chips side by side. Routing is much easier clamshell as well.