Because you can’t make a 10gb or 12gb card out of a 128 bit bus the GPU die was engineered with. 8gb is kind of too little to use ray tracing and frame generation unless you’re willing to put your textures too “low” preset to fit it all under 8gb. 16gb is a hell of a lot for a card of this performance level, but at least you’ll be able to use all those features, while still using ultra textures. Overall the 4070 is still a better deal than the 4060ti 16gb, even with the 16gb having been price cut from $499 down to $449.
My guess is that originally the Ti was called the 4060, and the now 4060 was originally the 4050. But for one reason or another, they decided to brand them one tier higher, and then jack the price up.
Because you can’t make a 10gb or 12gb card out of a 128 bit bus the GPU die was engineered with. 8gb is kind of too little to use ray tracing and frame generation unless you’re willing to put your textures too “low” preset to fit it all under 8gb. 16gb is a hell of a lot for a card of this performance level, but at least you’ll be able to use all those features, while still using ultra textures. Overall the 4070 is still a better deal than the 4060ti 16gb, even with the 16gb having been price cut from $499 down to $449.
My guess is that originally the Ti was called the 4060, and the now 4060 was originally the 4050. But for one reason or another, they decided to brand them one tier higher, and then jack the price up.