GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 4090
GeForce RTX 3060 GDDR6X
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
AD102-300-A1
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2022
2022
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 16-pin
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
2520 MHz
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
2235 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
5 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
76,300 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16384
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
450 Watt
195 Watt
Texture fill rate
1,290
199.0
Memory type
GDDR6X
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
21000 MHz
19 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
1,008 GB/s
304.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.9
8.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.6
6.7
Vulkan
1.3
1.3