NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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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$ 1549.99

$ 339.79

$ 1210.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

109% significantly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

172 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

92 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

19931 points

763% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

86% significantly higher Blender score

3124.65 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

1925 MHz

37% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

2075 MHz

22% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

225% significantly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

200 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

42% significantly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

45% significantly higher texture rate

381.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

45% significantly better floating point performance

24.44 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

78% significantly more shading units

5888

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

78% significantly more texture mapping units

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4060 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 in gaming.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 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. 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 4060 has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 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 3090 is better than the GeForce RTX 4060.