GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4070 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4070. MSRP range: $329 · $599. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM$329 MSRP

Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

GeForce RTX 4070

$599 MSRP

Full GeForce RTX 4070 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	GeForce RTX 4070
vram gb	12	—

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.

Benchmark	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB	GeForce RTX 4070
3DMark DirectX Raytracing	—	51 fps
3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test	—	51 FPS
3DMark Fire Strike	21,653 points	37,790 points
3DMark FireStrike Ultra	—	9,880 points
3DMark Port Royal	5,072 points	11,126 points
3DMark Speed Way	2,192 points	4,360 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	1,978 points	3,853 points
3DMark Time Spy	8,754 points	16,822 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	—	8,320 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL	82,071 points	—
Geekbench 6 Vulkan	91,383 points	—
PassMark G2D Mark	—	1,168 pts

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.