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

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. Release years: 2020, 2021. MSRP range: $329 · $1,499. 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

SpecNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
vram gb 1224
vram type GDDR6GDDR6X
tdp w 170350
cuda cores 358410496

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.

BenchmarkNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points—
3DMark Port Royal 5,264 points15,039 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,159 points5,075 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,984 points5,340 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,747 points18,824 points
PassMark G2D Mark 984 pts1,069 pts
PassMark G3D Mark 16,969 pts26,546 points
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

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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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