NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. All released in 2022. MSRP range: $1,599 · $329. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

24 GB VRAM450W TDP$1,599 MSRP2022

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

12 GB VRAM$329 MSRP

Full GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB 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 4090	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
vram gb	24	12
vram type	GDDR6X	—
tdp w	450	—
cuda cores	16384	—

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 4090	GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike	—	21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal	25,820 points	5,072 points
3DMark Speed Way	10,527 points	2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	9,225 points	1,978 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light	11,287 points	—
3DMark Time Spy	39,397 points	8,754 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	20,192 points	—
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (Graphics)	19,000 pts	—
3DMark Time Spy GPU	35,200 pts	—
Deep Learning Benchmark (ResNet-50)	128,000 images/sec	—
Geekbench 6 OpenCL	—	82,071 points
Geekbench 6 Vulkan	—	91,383 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.