NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 51% (2520MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 8GB)

11520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (225W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +409%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

16.2 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4090 +199%

36549

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

12223

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +270%

185

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +211%

280

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

90

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +120%

304

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

138

Cyberpunk 2077 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +113%

94

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

44

Cyberpunk 2077 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +270%

185

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

50

Cyberpunk 2077 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +153%

195

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

77

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +151%

186

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

74

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +54%

203

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

131

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +23%

213

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

173

GTA 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 4090 +153%

167

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

66

GTA 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 4090 +81%

185

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

102

GTA 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 4090 +20%

186

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

155

GeForce RTX 4090

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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

1410 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6X

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/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

GA104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-202-A1

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

Board Design

450W

TDP

225W

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

6.7

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