GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 4060 AD106 - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce RTX 4060 AD106
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Ampere GA106
AD106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2021
April 2024 (recently)
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
1777 MHz
2460 MHz
Core clock speed
1320 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
22,900 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3584
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
170 Watt
115 Watt
Texture fill rate
199.0
236.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
12 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
15000 MHz
17 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
360.0 GB/s
272.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3