NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 366.59

$ 339.79

$ 26.80 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

1% slightly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

167 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

5 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Battlefield 2042 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

160 FPS

56 FPS significantly higher Battlefield 2042 FPS

104 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

74 FPS

42 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

32 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

57 FPS

59 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

126 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Fortnite FPS

123 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

87 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

95 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher God of War FPS

72 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

76 FPS

Identical

76 FPS

Sons Of The Forest FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

85 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Sons Of The Forest FPS

79 FPS

The Last of Us Part I FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

63 FPS

8 FPS slightly higher The Last of Us Part I FPS

55 FPS

ULTRAKILL FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

146 FPS

59 FPS significantly higher ULTRAKILL FPS

87 FPS

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

Very High settings at 1080p

138 FPS

80 FPS significantly higher Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales FPS

58 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

11700 points

406% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

3124.65 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

1925 MHz

36% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

2075 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

55% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

Identical

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

0.30% slightly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

50% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

16.20 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

50% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

5888

21% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

184

21% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 4060 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, both the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and the GeForce RTX 4060 have an identical TDP. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti over the GeForce RTX 4060.