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

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 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

Released 1 years late

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

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

12800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +548%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

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

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/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

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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

170W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x 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

GA104-150-KC-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

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

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