NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 240.0GB/s)
12800 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages
Lower TDP (195W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+548%
82.58 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104
12.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 40
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
128bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
128
SM Count
28
16384
Shading Units
3584
512
TMUs
112
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
112
128
RT Cores
28
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
195W
850 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
GA104
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA104
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
