NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2460MHz vs 1777MHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 272.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 +18%

15.11 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 4060 +17%

10620

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

9002

GeForce RTX 4060

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

May 2023

Release Date

Sep 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

1320 MHz

2460 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2125 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

272.0GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

28

3072

Shading Units

3584

96

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

96

Tensor Cores

112

24

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

118.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

236.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

15.11 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

15.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

236.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

115W

TDP

170W

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 Processor

AD107

GPU Name

GA104

AD107-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

18.9 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

159 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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