Home GPU Comparison NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

11520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +409%

82.58 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

11652

GeForce RTX 4090 +213%

36541

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +277%

185

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +201%

280

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

129

GeForce RTX 4090 +135%

304

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +129%

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +285%

185

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +170%

195

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +173%

186

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

122

GeForce RTX 4090 +66%

203

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

166

GeForce RTX 4090 +28%

213

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +169%

167

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +86%

185

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

149

GeForce RTX 4090 +24%

186

Horizon Forbidden West 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +123%

159

Horizon Forbidden West 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +150%

135

Horizon Forbidden West 2160p

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090 +170%

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410MHz

Base Clock

2235MHz

1665MHz

Boost Clock

2520MHz

1750MHz

Memory Clock

1313MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

448.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

1008 GB/s

Render Config

SM Count

128

Compute Units

4864

Shading Units

16384

152

TMUs

512

ROPs

176

152

Tensor Cores

512

RT Cores

128

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4MB

L2 Cache

72MB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD102

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17,400 million

Transistors

76,300 million

392mm²

Die Size

609mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

450W

550W

Suggested PSU

850W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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