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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4060. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecGeForce RTX 3060 12 GBGeForce RTX 4060
vram gb —8
vram type —GDDR6
tdp w —115
cuda cores —3072
rt cores —24
tensor cores —96
process nm —5

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkGeForce RTX 3060 12 GBGeForce RTX 4060
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points—
3DMark Port Royal 5,072 points6,054 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,192 points2,720 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,978 points—
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 —2,313 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,754 points11,413 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL 82,071 points—
Geekbench 6 Vulkan 91,383 points—
PassMark G2D Mark —1,038 pts
PassMark G3D Mark —19,512 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy —16 rank

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

  • llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s
  • llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
  • llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s

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GeForce RTX 4060

  • deepseek-coder:6.7b: 52.9 tok/s
  • deepseek-coder:6.7b: 52.9 tok/s
  • codellama:7b: 52.7 tok/s

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