GeForce RTX 3060 vs RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 24GB VRAM RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (2617MHz vs 1777MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (140W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
12740
RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
+268%
46900
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Mar 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1590 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
672.0GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
70
3584
Shading Units
8960
112
TMUs
280
48
ROPs
96
112
Tensor Cores
280
28
RT Cores
70
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
3 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
251.2 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
732.8 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
46.90 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
46.90 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
732.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
GB203
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
12 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
378 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
8.6
CUDA
10.1
6.6
Shader Model
6.8
