GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 43.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 38.0 Poor 93.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Fire Strike 29571 72432
Night Raid 109862 195813
Port Royal 6971 26127
Solar Bay 54429 187525
Time Spy 11707 36299
Wild Life Extreme 24417 85218

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
CUDA 8.6 8.9
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 3
DirectX 12 12
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
1080p High 126 255
1080p Ultra 105 217
1440p Ultra 77 177
4K Ultra 43 106
CoD: Modern Warfare III 107997247 266263219151
Counter-Strike 2 22616912164 33923818890
Cyberpunk 2077 92814822 22620814366
Far Cry 6 1141038347 203179170104
Forza Horizon 5 132887554 275199193155
Ghost of Tsushima 82694828 18815213791
Hogwarts Legacy 86735529 20016313274
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1391329553 302284222118
The Witcher 3 1521289247 292268191101

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 25946 75599
Face Detection (HP) 34615 78111
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7384 15600
Image Segmentation (HP) 19320 36657
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16108 48114
Machine Translation (HP) 4136 6349
Object Detection (SP) 8718 21186
Pose Estimation (Q) 74811 289639
Style Transfer (SP) 153275 601428
Text Classification (SP) 2638 4074

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 185.1 img/sec 318.9 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.17 Gpixels/sec 21 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 108.4 img/sec 222.8 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.15 Gpixels/sec 2.38 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.54 Gpixels/sec 23.9 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.35 Gpixels/sec 14.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15183 FPS 48090.4 FPS
Stereo Matching 478 Gpixels/sec 1950 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6700 XT
Architecture Ampere Ada Lovelace
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 AD102
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12600Kor above -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above
Released December 2, 2020 September 20, 2022
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Base Clock 1410 MHz 2235 MHz
Boost Clock 1665 MHz 2520 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 38 128
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 72MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 38 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 176
Shading Units 4864 16384
Tensor Cores 152 512
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 152 512

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Bus 256-bit 384-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2625 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
DirectX 11 164 FPS 323 FPS
DirectX 12 78 FPS 151 FPS
G2D Mark 989 1303
GPU Compute 9865 Ops/s 26022 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Die Size 392 mm² 609 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 200 W 450 W
Transistor Count 17 billion 76.3 billion
Transistor Density 43.37 MTr/mm² 125.29 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Pixel Fill Rate 133 GPixel/s 444 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 1290 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 4090
Date Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024

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