NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB 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

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

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

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

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB +73%

22.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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

1320MHz

Base Clock

2310MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

2535MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

2250MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

34

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

4352

112

TMUs

136

64

ROPs

48

112

Tensor Cores

136

28

RT Cores

34

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

32MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 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

GA104

GPU Name

AD106

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD106-351-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17,400 million

Transistors

22,900 million

392mm²

Die Size

188mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

165W

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 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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