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

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. All released in 2021. 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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Specs side-by-side

SpecGeForce RTX 3060 12 GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb —12
vram type —GDDR6
tdp w —170
cuda cores —3584

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 GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal 5,072 points5,264 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,192 points2,159 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,978 points1,984 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,754 points8,747 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL 82,071 points—
Geekbench 6 Vulkan 91,383 points—
PassMark G2D Mark —984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark —16,969 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy —12 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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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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

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