NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared
Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. All released in 2020. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.
NVIDIA · Ampere
24 GB VRAM350W TDP$1,499 MSRP2020
Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 benchmarks →
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GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
Full GeForce RTX 4060 Ti benchmarks →*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 3090 | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| vram gb | 24 | — |
| vram type | GDDR6X | — |
| tdp w | 350 | — |
| cuda cores | 10496 | — |
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 3090 | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| 3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test | — | 38 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 29,473 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme | — | 14,854 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics | — | 32,678 points |
| 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra | — | 7,407 points |
| 3DMark Port Royal | 15,190 points | 8,049 points |
| 3DMark Speed Way | 5,075 points | 3,245 points |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad | 5,340 points | 2,907 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy | 18,824 points | 12,997 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme | 9,800 points | 6,630 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics | — | 6,345 points |
| 3DMark Time Spy Graphics | — | 13,285 points |
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 3090
- llama3.2:1b: 267.0 tok/s
- qwen3:35b-a3b: 135.7 tok/s
- qwen3.6-35b-a3b: 120.0 tok/s
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
- llama3.2:1b: 209.0 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 63.9 tok/s
- llama2:7b: 63.9 tok/s
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