NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 284.17
$ 1215.78 significantly less expensive
$ 1499.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
16207 points
207% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS
382 FPS
256 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
188 FPS
127 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
275 FPS
187 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
151 FPS
103 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points
21929 points
150% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
6069.41 points
161% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

99213 points
260346 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

96416 points
229738 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

74845 points
141134 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
207329 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
187369 points
117% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
1560 MHz
18% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
13% slightly higher boost clock speed
1560 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB
24 GiB
100% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
384 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
1008 GB/s
180% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W
164% significantly lower TDP
450 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s
208.3 Gigapixels/s
144% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s
625 Gigatexels/s
214% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
40 TFLOPS
213% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
10752
200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
336
200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
112
133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
16th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3090 Ti comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has significantly more memory with 24 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a significantly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at 450 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.

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