NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 599.99
$ 1100.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1699.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

51 %
211 %
313% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

123 FPS
482 FPS
358 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

60 FPS
242 FPS
182 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

86 FPS
356 FPS
270 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

47 FPS
193 FPS
147 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8714
35402
306% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2445.24
12168.35
397% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89470
326781
265% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

84353
254242
201% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz
2235 MHz
69% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz
2520 MHz
41% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

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
483.8 Gigapixels/s
467% significantly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
548% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584
16384
357% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112
512
357% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
192
300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 549
2nd of 549

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

January 2021
October 2022

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 4090 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4090 beats the GeForce RTX 3060 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

As stated by the manufacturer, the GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 at 450 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4090 over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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