GeForce RTX 4060 vs 3070 Ti

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older RTX 3070 Ti that utilizes 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6X
41.6
(Average)
Value Index
51.5
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Ti over RTX 4060
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
  • Performs significantly better (up to 44%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 38% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 69 FPS
  • 44% higher maximum theoretical performance (21.7 vs 15.1 TFLOPS)
  • Has 2.2x higher memory bandwidth: 608.3 vs 272 GB/s
  • Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (136K vs 106K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (6144 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
128
78
66
47
157
101
93
66
The Witcher 3
143
117
82
44
177
149
104
57
Counter-Strike 2
208
157
111
58
255
203
142
83
Far Cry 6
105
98
76
45
136
127
106
61
Hogwarts Legacy
78
65
47
26
104
85
69
38
CoD: Modern Warfare III
98
90
64
43
129
121
92
58
Ghost of Tsushima
73
61
45
27
96
78
62
34
Cyberpunk 2077
82
75
43
22
113
100
65
32
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
128
119
85
46
176
167
124
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 149
1080p Ultra 96 126
1440p Ultra 69 95
4K Ultra 40 55
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
10683
15393
Time Spy 10615 14881
Solar Bay 49340 69901
Port Royal 6054 8884
Fire Strike 28540 37242
Wild Life Extreme 20610 31912
Night Raid 121368 134068
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
106633
136096
Background Blur 186.9 img/sec 197 img/sec
Face Detection 112.7 img/sec 128.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.92 Gpixels/sec 6.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.16 Gpixels/sec 8.81 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.94 Gpixels/sec 6.47 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.34 Gpixels/sec 1.26 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 446.2 Gpixels/sec 609.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14935.1 FPS 18205 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
10606
11990

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
19489
23173
G2D Mark 1036 1057
DirectX 11 174 FPS 192 FPS
DirectX 12 76 FPS 90 FPS
GPU Compute 9156 Ops/s 11384 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]27959 & 17183 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3134.66
3735.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10]2064 & 2274 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
17857
22516
GB6 ML Half Precision
29214
36377
GB6 ML Quantized
14234
14215
Image Classification (SP) 7696 8615
Image Segmentation (HP) 13706 24659
Image Super Resolution (Q) 23289 20631
Face Detection (HP) 31126 43834
Pose Estimation (Q) 78361 98347
Text Classification (SP) 3315 3162
Machine Translation (HP) 3491 4911
Object Detection (SP) 9386 11498
Depth Estimation (Q) 36778 34719
Style Transfer (SP) 148120 196833
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 and 3070 Ti

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 18, 2023 June 10, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 GA104
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700 XT - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 14600K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (53rd and 36th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1830 MHz 1575 MHz
Boost Clock 2460 MHz 1770 MHz
Shading Units 3072 6144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 48
Tensor Cores 96 192
Ray-tracing Cores 24 48
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 24MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 118 GPixel/s 170 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 236 GTexel/s 340 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
15.1 TFLOPS
21.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 115 W 290 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 43.37 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock - 1188 MHz
Effective Memory Speed - 19000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
272 GB/s
RTX 3070 Ti +124%
608.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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