NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 48% higher core clock speed: 2310 MHz vs 1560 MHz
  • Around 36% higher boost clock speed: 2535 MHz vs 1860 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 165 Watt vs 450 Watt
  • Around 71% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Launch date 18 May 2023 vs 27 Jan 2022
Core clock speed 2310 MHz vs 1560 MHz
Boost clock speed 2535 MHz vs 1860 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt vs 450 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

  • Around 81% higher texture fill rate: 625.0 GTexel/s vs 344.8 GTexel/s
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 10752 vs 4352
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 24 GB vs 16 GB
  • Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1226 vs 1069
  • Around 30% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 29671 vs 22887
  • Around 64% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 22131 vs 13485
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 625.0 GTexel/s vs 344.8 GTexel/s
Pipelines 10752 vs 4352
Maximum memory size 24 GB vs 16 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 1226 vs 1069
PassMark - G3D Mark 29671 vs 22887
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 22131 vs 13485

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1069
1226
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22887
29671
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score
GPU 1
GPU 2
13485
22131
Name NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
PassMark - G2D Mark 1069 1226
PassMark - G3D Mark 22887 29671
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 13485 22131
Geekbench - OpenCL 205205
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 259.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 63.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 177.665
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 3026.082

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD106 GA102
Launch date 18 May 2023 27 Jan 2022
Place in performance rating 30 27

Technical info

Boost clock speed 2535 MHz 1860 MHz
Core clock speed 2310 MHz 1560 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 4352 10752
Pixel fill rate 121.7 GPixel/s 208.3 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 344.8 GTexel/s 625.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 450 Watt
Transistor count 22900 million 28300 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 625.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 40.00 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 40.00 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot Triple-slot
Height 40 mm, 1.6 inches 61 mm, 2.4 inches
Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
Length 240 mm, 9.4 inches 336 mm, 13.2 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 450 Watt 850 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 16-pin 1x 16-pin
Width 111 mm, 4.4 inches 140 mm, 5.5 inches

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 24 GB
Memory bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 1,008 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 1313 MHz, 21 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6X