GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. 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
12 GB VRAM$329 MSRP
Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB benchmarks →
vs
NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
$599 MSRP
Full GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 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 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| 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 SUPER |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 21,653 points | 40,528 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 23,212 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 12,197 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 5,072 points | 13,059 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 2,192 points | 5,199 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,978 points | 4,650 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 8,754 points | 20,835 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | — | 9,831 points |
| Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 82,071 points | — |
| Geekbench 6 Vulkan | 91,383 points | — |
| PassMark G2D Mark | — | 1,193 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | — | 29,959 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.
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
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
- llama3.2:1b: 183.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 183.0 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct: 183.0 tok/s
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