NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)

11520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +409%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

16.2 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce RTX 4090 +282%

12921

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

3381

OctaneBench

GeForce RTX 4090 +250%

1278

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

365

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GA103

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Feb 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

1410 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1008GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

38

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

4864

512

TMUs

152

176

ROPs

80

512

Tensor Cores

152

128

RT Cores

38

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

253.1 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.20 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.20 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

253.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA103S

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA103-200-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

609 mm²

Die Size

496 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

200W

850 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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

6.5

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