NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 450W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

12800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 +548%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 4090

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2022

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1010GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

128

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

16384

112

TMUs

512

64

ROPs

176

112

Tensor Cores

512

28

RT Cores

128

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

72 MB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

443.5 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1290 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

82.58 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

82.58 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1290 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD102

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

AD102-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

76.3 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

609 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

450W

450 W

Suggested PSU

850 W

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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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