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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. 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.
*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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Benchmark | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 21,653 points | 31,146 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 5,072 points | 8,726 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 2,159 points | 3,158 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,984 points | 2,911 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 8,420 points | 13,605 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 984 pts | 1,079 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 16,969 pts | 22,641 pts |
| Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy | 12 rank | 409 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
- llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
- Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct: 128.3 tok/s
- llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
- llama3.2:1b: 209.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 209.0 tok/s
- llama3.2:1b: 209.0 tok/s
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