NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 425W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 D's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

11008 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 D +477%

73.54 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3060

8755

GeForce RTX 4090 D +291%

34305

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce RTX 4090 D

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Dec 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320MHz

Base Clock

2280MHz

1777MHz

Boost Clock

2520MHz

1875MHz

Memory Clock

1313MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0 GB/s

Bandwidth

1008 GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

114

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

14592

112

TMUs

456

48

ROPs

176

112

Tensor Cores

456

28

RT Cores

114

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3MB

L2 Cache

72MB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1149 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

73.54 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

73.54 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1149 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD102

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-250-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12,000 million

Transistors

76,300 million

276mm²

Die Size

609mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

425W

450W

Suggested PSU

800W

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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