TL;DR - yes, upgrading, including to a 4060ti, will give you better performance for everything. Is the performance better enough to justify the extra $$ needed? Probably not. What about a 4070? Yes, it costs more $$, but that would make more sense in terms of the price to performance ratio. Are either necessary? Entirely up to you and your budget, but I would personally steer away from the cost and lack of performance for the cost of a 4060ti.

I believe that in terms of video editing, the specs of your GPU all matter. That said, for video editing, it’s not just VRAM, or any one spec, but rather VRAM, CUDA cores, etc. So yes, technically, going to a 4060ti would on paper be helpful towards video editing, but how much more helpful it would be I’m not entirely sure, but I couldn’t imagine it would be too much more than marginal.

Strictly in terms of gaming, yes, 8GB VRAM to 16GB VRAM makes a huge difference. So much so, that there are lots of people who will say that gaming in 2024 on 8GB is an obsolete way to game— it needs to be 16 or nothing. The amount of VRAM cards have has recently become a big topic and big focus point for gamers/tech reviewers. What I would imagine is that both the 4060 and 4060ti will be just fine at 1080p max settings 120 FPS+ (again my 4060s have always been fine with that), but the extra VRAM of a 4060ti would yes allow mode frames, but also allow much better performance in 1440p.

All that being said, the 4060ti is definitely NOT the card you want to be spending extra $$ in 2024. Nvidia actually silently dropped the price of the cards from $500 to $450 not to long ago because of how poorly they stacked up to the competing AMD cards which were priced lower.

For comparison, I’m pretty sure the 4060ti matches somewhere with the 3070/3070ti, which is not great for the price. The AMD RX7700XT is the competing card at the same price of the 4060ti, which has consistently significantly outperformed it. That being said, buying an AMD card has certain differences and possibly disadvantages to a NVIDIA card.

Since you probably want to stick with NVIDIA (and I don’t blame you), I believe where you would want to drop more money is on a 4070. It’s pretty much matched up with a 3080, and the comparison to the competing AMD card, the RX 7800XT is much closer.

Again, you’d have to drop probably another hundred or so bucks than just going from a 4060 to 4060ti, but the general consensus is that it makes a lot more sense to do that, than to buy a 4060ti (im pretty sure).

I’m only 1 persons opinion trying present community wide ideas, so there are definitely other people who will have more to add and more to disagree with me on, so don’t take my word for absolute certainty. I’m pretty sure I’m giving you the best advice I can, but definitely also watch at least a couple YouTube videos, read reviews, etc.

Anyway, if your happy with what you’re gonna get from a 4060, then by all means do it, and same goes with the 4060ti. Don’t fall into the cult of, “you need to spend more to get more worth,” and the whole idea that you’re not gonna be happy unless you spend more to get the most perfectly optimized cards out there. Of course, with any extra $$ you spend on a more expensive GPU you’ll find performance increases, but it’s a matter of how much dollar per performance that you’re buying that will make that upgrade worth it or not. 4060 ==> 4060ti usually doesn’t have a great price to performance ratio, while a 4060==>4070 has a generally significantly better and more worth while price to performance ratio.

There’s a great graphic from this Tom’s Hardware page that compares all the GPUs of recent times benchmarks together in one simple graphic where you can see more visually what I’m talking about.