NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Release years: 2020, 2021. MSRP range: $329 · $399. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
*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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 12 | 8 |
| vram type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| tdp w | 170 | 200 |
| cuda cores | 3584 | 4864 |
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 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark Fire Strike | 21,653 points | 28,145 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 13,898 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 7,126 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 5,264 points | 7,496 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 2,159 points | 3,418 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 1,984 points | 2,689 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 8,747 points | 12,175 points |
| PassMark G2D Mark | 984 pts | 990 pts |
| PassMark G3D Mark | 16,969 pts | 20,264 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.
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
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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