NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 43% (2535MHz vs 1777MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104 +73%

22.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti AD104

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Apr 2024

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2310 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2535 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4352

112

TMUs

136

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

136

28

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

344.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

22.06 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.06 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

344.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD104

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD104-150-K1-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

160W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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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