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Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by mrbonner on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:11PM (#43017735)
Let me know where you could find 4060Ti 16GB for under $1000 USD
Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by hedgehog on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:46PM (#43018149)
What's annoying is they were under $500 just a few months ago.
Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by donflamenco on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:23AM (#43022465)
Bestbuy has the PNY 4060 Ti 16GB in stock right now for $450.
Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by qingcharles on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:17AM (#43023075)
Not any longer...!

This card still seems like a bad proposition. It's roughly similar performance to the 11GB 2080 Ti for double the price. You'd have to really want that extra 5GB.

Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by donflamenco on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @01:00PM (#43027879)
I still see it in stock for pick up in Bay Area and in Seattle. I tried a Montana zip code and it showed it as available also.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-...

Most people who want the 4060 Ti 16GB is because they want the 16GB for running LLMs. So yes, they really want that extra 5GB.

I'm actually tempted, but I don't know if I should go for a Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB for $1350 (ebay) or build a PC around a GPU. I think the Mac makes a lot of sense.

Re:Intel's Battlemage Architecture by buck746 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:28PM (#43094641)
I have an M2 Max with 64Gb of ram. It handles everything I throw at it. Runs the 30ish gigabyte deepseek model fine. I will admit for gaming I pretty much just stick to Cyberpunk 2077, Minecraft, Stray, Viscera Cleanup Simulator and old games with open source engine options. I'm happy I can play Cyberpunk with my screen on full brightness using 30w, compared to my Xeon windows machine taking 250w for lower frame rates.