Component comparison

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 3060

GeForce RTX 4060 vs GeForce RTX 3060 — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.

Advantages

A GeForce RTX 4060
  • + Release year (+2)
  • + TGP / TDP (W) (+35 W)
  • + Lithography (nm) (-3 nm)
  • + Transistors (M) (+6,900M)
  • + Die size (mm²) (+117 mm²)
  • + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+4.17 TFLOPS)
  • + Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) (+32.80 GPixel/s)
  • + Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) (+37.20 GTexel/s)
  • + Energy efficiency (+9.6)
  • + PassMark (overall) (+411)
  • + 3DMark Time Spy (+2107)
  • + 3DMark Fire Strike (+4841)
  • + Geekbench OpenCL (+13403)
  • + Geekbench Vulkan (+10080)
  • + Normalized score (+3.4)
B GeForce RTX 3060
  • + VRAM (GB) (+4 GB)
  • + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+88 GB/s)
  • + Memory bus (bit) (+64 bit)
  • + CUDA cores (+768)
  • + TMUs (+24)
  • + RT cores (+6)
  • + Tensor cores (+24)

Detailed spec comparison

Spec Component A
GeForce RTX 4060
 Component B
GeForce RTX 3060
Release year 2023 (+2) 2021
VRAM (GB) 8 GB 12 GB (+4 GB)
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory clock (MHz) 2000 MHz —
Bandwidth (GB/s) 272 GB/s 360 GB/s (+88 GB/s)
Memory bus (bit) 128 bit 192 bit (+64 bit)
TGP / TDP (W) 115 W (+35 W) 80 W
Lithography (nm) 5 nm (-3 nm) 8 nm
Transistors (M) 18,900M (+6,900M) 12,000M
Die size (mm²) 159 mm² (+117 mm²) 276 mm²
Base clock (MHz) — —
Boost clock (MHz) — —
CUDA cores 3,072 3,840 (+768)
TMUs 96 120 (+24)
ROPs 48 48
RT cores 24 30 (+6)
Tensor cores 96 120 (+24)
FP32 performance (TFLOPS) 15.11 TFLOPS (+4.17 TFLOPS) 10.94 TFLOPS
Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) 118.10 GPixel/s (+32.80 GPixel/s) 85.30 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) 236.20 GTexel/s (+37.20 GTexel/s) 199.00 GTexel/s
Energy efficiency 28.0 (+9.6) 18.5
PassMark (overall) 17,355 (+411) 16,944
3DMark Time Spy 10,329 (+2107) 8,222
3DMark Fire Strike 26,530 (+4841) 21,689
Geekbench OpenCL 101,654 (+13403) 88,251
Geekbench Vulkan 99,998 (+10080) 89,918
Normalized score 75.9 (+3.4) 72.5

Only in component A

ray_tracing

In both

CUDA DLSS ReBAR

FPS in games (1080p)

Game GeForce RTX 4060 GeForce RTX 3060 Delta
A Plague Tale Requiem 73 FPS 44 FPS +65.9% (A)
ARC Raiders 92 FPS 70 FPS +31.4% (A)
Alan Wake Remastered 145 FPS 82 FPS +76.8% (A)
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla 111 FPS 57 FPS +94.7% (A)
Atomic Heart 63 FPS 75 FPS 19% (B)
Back 4 Blood 198 FPS 157 FPS +26.1% (A)
Battlefield 2042 123 FPS 74 FPS +66.2% (A)
Battlefield 5 130 FPS 110 FPS +18.2% (A)
Black Myth: Wukong 48 FPS 32 FPS +50% (A)
Borderlands 3 107 FPS 84 FPS +27.4% (A)
CS:GO 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
Call of Duty Black Ops 7 97 FPS 83 FPS +16.9% (A)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 70 FPS 77 FPS 10% (B)
Civilization 7 112 FPS 110 FPS +1.8% (A)
Company of Heroes 3 102 FPS 123 FPS 20.6% (B)
Control 89 FPS 78 FPS +14.1% (A)
Counter-Strike 2 195 FPS 170 FPS +14.7% (A)
Crysis Remastered 86 FPS 61 FPS +41% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 123 FPS 103 FPS +19.4% (A)
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 64 FPS 42 FPS +52.4% (A)
Days Gone 131 FPS 95 FPS +37.9% (A)
Dead Space Remake 54 FPS 59 FPS 9.3% (B)
Death Stranding 150 FPS 99 FPS +51.5% (A)
Dirt 5 116 FPS 77 FPS +50.6% (A)
Dota 2 164 FPS 131 FPS +25.2% (A)
Dying Light 2 52 FPS 64 FPS 23.1% (B)
Elex 2 114 FPS 73 FPS +56.2% (A)
F1 2021 208 FPS 119 FPS +74.8% (A)
F1 22 125 FPS 113 FPS +10.6% (A)
F1 24 143 FPS 66 FPS +116.7% (A)
Far Cry 5 128 FPS 112 FPS +14.3% (A)
Far Cry 6 101 FPS 75 FPS +34.7% (A)
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark 75 FPS 55 FPS +36.4% (A)
Final Fantasy XVI 54 FPS 44 FPS +22.7% (A)
Flight Simulator 2020 69 FPS 63 FPS +9.5% (A)
Fortnite 180 FPS 140 FPS +28.6% (A)
Forza Horizon 4 160 FPS 110 FPS +45.5% (A)
Forza Horizon 5 238 FPS 120 FPS +98.3% (A)
GRID Legends 132 FPS 131 FPS +0.8% (A)
GTA V 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
GTA V 141 FPS 120 FPS +17.5% (A)
Ghostwire Tokyo 69 FPS 122 FPS 76.8% (B)
God of War 52 FPS 73 FPS 40.4% (B)
Guardians of the Galaxy 135 FPS 89 FPS +51.7% (A)
Halo Infinite 124 FPS 92 FPS +34.8% (A)
High On Life 92 FPS 99 FPS 7.6% (B)
Hitman 3 173 FPS 111 FPS +55.9% (A)
Hogwarts Legacy 71 FPS 70 FPS +1.4% (A)
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 77 FPS 60 FPS +28.3% (A)
Metro Exodus 25 FPS 81 FPS 224% (B)
Need for Speed Unbound 75 FPS 73 FPS +2.7% (A)
Overwatch 240 FPS 240 FPS ≈
PUBG 140 FPS 140 FPS ≈
Rainbow Six Extraction 141 FPS 155 FPS 9.9% (B)
Resident Evil 4 Remake 124 FPS 124 FPS ≈
Returnal 63 FPS 85 FPS 34.9% (B)
Riders Republic 122 FPS 86 FPS +41.9% (A)
Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 38 FPS 18 FPS +111.1% (A)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 156 FPS 116 FPS +34.5% (A)
Sons of the Forest 60 FPS 66 FPS 10% (B)
Spider-Man Miles Morales 73 FPS 80 FPS 9.6% (B)
Stalker 2 48 FPS 16 FPS +200% (A)
Star Wars Outlaws 36 FPS 24 FPS +50% (A)
Starfield 47 FPS 40 FPS +17.5% (A)
The Callisto Protocol 78 FPS 56 FPS +39.3% (A)
The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered 53 FPS 49 FPS +8.2% (A)
The Last of Us 55 FPS 55 FPS ≈
The Quarry 73 FPS 76 FPS 4.1% (B)
The Witcher 3 191 FPS 142 FPS +34.5% (A)
The Witcher 3 110 FPS 81 FPS +35.8% (A)
The Witcher 3 v4 59 FPS 108 FPS 83.1% (B)
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 87 FPS 95 FPS 9.2% (B)
Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection 68 FPS 65 FPS +4.6% (A)
Valorant 240 FPS 190 FPS +26.3% (A)
Vampire Bloodhunt 201 FPS 157 FPS +28% (A)
X-Plane 11.11 61 FPS 62 FPS 1.6% (B)
Yakuza Like a Dragon 117 FPS 105 FPS +11.4% (A)

Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.

Based on the comparison: GeForce RTX 4060 wins 15 of the comparable criteria. The choice depends on your use case.

🤔 How to choose

Universal advice for any use case.

  • Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
  • Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
  • Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).
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