NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 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's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 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 +73%

22.06 TFLOPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060

80

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +40%

112

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3060

116

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti +42%

165

GeForce RTX 3060

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

May 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

2310MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

2535MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

2250MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

32

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4352

112

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

128

28

RT Cores

32

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

32MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.7 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

324.5 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

AD106

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD106-350-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

Unknown

276mm²

Die Size

190mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

160W

450W

Suggested PSU

450W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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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