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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4060. MSRP range: $399 · $299. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti leads on 8 of 9 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Speed Way); the GeForce RTX 4060 takes 1 (5% in PassMark G2D Mark). On gemma:26b, both reach about 5.0 tokens/s in the community runs on file.

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Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce RTX 4060
vram gb 88
vram type GDDR6GDDR6
tdp w 200115
cuda cores 48643072
rt cores —24
tensor cores —96
process nm —5

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 TiGeForce RTX 4060
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) 29,426 points24,856 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better) 13,898 points12,086 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) 7,126 points—
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) 7,038 points6,327 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) 3,297 points2,710 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) 2,689 points2,309 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 (higher is better) 2,691 points2,313 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) 12,253 points11,413 points
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) 990 pts1,038 pts
PassMark G3D (higher is better) —19,488 points
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better) 20,264 pts19,512 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better) —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.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

  • deepseekr1:32b: 863.0 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 86.7 tok/s
  • llama2:7b: 75.6 tok/s

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GeForce RTX 4060

  • llama3.2:1b: 134.0 tok/s
  • deepseek-coder:6.7b: 52.9 tok/s
  • deepseek-coder:6.7b: 52.9 tok/s

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or the GeForce RTX 4060?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti leads on 8 of 9 shared benchmarks (22% in 3DMark Speed Way); the GeForce RTX 4060 takes 1 (5% in PassMark G2D Mark).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On gemma:26b, both reach about 5.0 tokens/s in the community runs on file.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti and the GeForce RTX 4060 cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti launched at a $399 MSRP and the GeForce RTX 4060 at $299. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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