NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2460MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 6GB)

Lower TDP (115W vs 185W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +6%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 40

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1830 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

3840

96

TMUs

120

48

ROPs

48

96

Tensor Cores

120

24

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA106

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

159 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

115W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

8.9

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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