NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and a Mobile platform GPU: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 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 256.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1890MHz vs 1777MHz)
Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
+9%
12.74 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile
11.61 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2021
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Desktop
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
1545 MHz
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
1890 MHz
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
28
SM Count
24
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
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
113.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
90.72 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
181.4 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
11.61 TFLOPS
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
11.61 TFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
181.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
170W
TDP
115W
450 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
AD107
GA104-150-KC-A1
GPU Variant
GN21-X4
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
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
6.8
