NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 6 shared benchmarks on file, by 26% to 211%, including 163% in 3DMark Time Spy (22,990 vs 8,747). On qwen3:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER generates 58.1 tokens/s (per Hardware Corner) against 33.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. Released 2021 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060), 2024 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER). MSRP range: $329 · $799. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

16 GB VRAM285W TDP$799 MSRP2024

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

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

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
vram gb	12	16
vram type	GDDR6	GDDR6X
tdp w	170	285
cuda cores	3584	8448

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from WorthPlaying, 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Overclocking.com, TopCPU.net, CpuTronic and TechPowerUp; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: WorthPlaying, 3DMark	21,653 points	42,724 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better) Source: WorthPlaying	—	26,435 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) Source: WorthPlaying	—	14,209 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Overclocking.com	5,074 points	15,798 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark, Overclocking.com, WCCFTech	2,170 points	6,395 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, CpuTronic	1,984 points	—
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	1,978 points	—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark, WorthPlaying, Overclocking.com	8,747 points	22,990 points
3DMark Time Spy (Graphics) (higher is better) Source: WCCFTech	—	23,983 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better) Source: Legit Reviews	9,755 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: TechPowerUp, WorthPlaying, Overclocking.com	—	11,170 pts
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics) (higher is better) Source: WCCFTech	—	11,981 points

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s (LocalScore.ai)
llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)
llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s (tyolab.com)

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

llama3.2:1b: 161.0 tok/s (LocalScore (Mozilla Builders))
llama2:7b: 132.3 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA performance scoreboard))
llama2:7b: 132.3 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub (CUDA Scoreboard))

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 6 shared benchmarks on file, by 26% to 211%, including 163% in 3DMark Time Spy (22,990 vs 8,747).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On qwen3:14b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER generates 58.1 tokens/s (per Hardware Corner) against 33.4 for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (per tyolab.com), best community run on file for each.

What did the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER cost at launch?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 launched at a $329 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER at $799. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.