NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (2520MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1010GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

12544 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +480%

82.58 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Jan 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

1627 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1010GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

3840

512

TMUs

120

176

ROPs

48

512

Tensor Cores

120

128

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

GA106

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

12 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

185W

850 W

Suggested PSU

450 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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