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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. All released in 2020. 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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Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

SpecGeForce RTX 3060 12 GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
vram gb —24
vram type —GDDR6X
tdp w —350
cuda cores —10496

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 3090
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points—
3DMark Port Royal 5,072 points15,039 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,192 points5,075 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,978 points5,340 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,754 points18,824 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL 82,071 points—
Geekbench 6 Vulkan 91,383 points—
PassMark G2D Mark —1,069 pts
PassMark G3D Mark —26,546 points

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 3090

  • qwen3:35b-a3b: 135.7 tok/s
  • qwen3.6-35b-a3b: 120.0 tok/s
  • qwen3.5-35b-a3b: 112.0 tok/s

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