NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 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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$ 284.17

$ 55.62 slightly less expensive

$ 339.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

6694 points

26% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

126 FPS

161 FPS

34 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

77 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

113 FPS

25 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

61 FPS

13 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Gaming Benchmarks

Apex Legends FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

287 FPS

78 FPS significantly higher Apex Legends FPS

209 FPS

Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

67 FPS

86 FPS

19 FPS slightly higher Assassin's Creed Valhalla FPS

Call of Duty FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

149 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Call of Duty FPS

81 FPS

Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

62 FPS

30 FPS significantly higher Cyberpunk 2077 FPS

32 FPS

ELDEN RING FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

60 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher ELDEN RING FPS

59 FPS

Fortnite FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

239 FPS

116 FPS significantly higher Fortnite FPS

123 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

66 FPS

81 FPS

15 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

God of War FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

84 FPS

12 FPS slightly higher God of War FPS

72 FPS

Grand Theft Auto V FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

144 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Grand Theft Auto V FPS

124 FPS

Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

75 FPS

76 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Red Dead Redemption 2 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

279% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points

3124.65 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points

101567 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points

99687 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

1925 MHz

45% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

2075 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

17% slightly lower TDP

200 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

132.8 Gigapixels/s

55% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

381.8 Gigatexels/s

91% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

24.44 TFLOPS

91% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

5888

64% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

184

64% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 vs GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4060 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4060 has a significantly 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. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly lower TDP at 170 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4060 at 200 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3060.