NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2460MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 +18%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 4060

Graphics Card

Sep 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

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1830 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2460 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

2125 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

272.0GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

24

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

3072

112

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

96

28

RT Cores

24

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

24 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

118.1 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

236.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.11 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.11 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

236.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD107

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD107-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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