GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 vs RTX 3060 8 GB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking107not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency16.10no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA106AD106
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 October 2022 (2 years ago)April 2024 (recently)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35843072
Core clock speed1320 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors12,000 million22,900 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate199.0236.2
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs4848
TMUs11296
Tensor Cores11296
Ray Tracing Cores2824

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 12-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth240.0 GB/s272.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 4060 AD106 has a 60% more advanced lithography process, and 47.8% lower power consumption.

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