RTX 3060 vs RTX 4060 - Test in 10 Games | 1440p

GeForce RTX 3060 12GB vs GeForce RTX 4060 8GB l 1440p

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Games :
Horizon Forbidden West - 0:06
Resident Evil 4 - 3:14
Starfield - 4:18
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora - 7:27
Alan Wake 2 - 8:28

System:
Windows 11
MSI MPG X670E CARBON
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL38

[TestingGames]

Games :
Horizon Forbidden West - 0:06
Resident Evil 4 - 3:14
Starfield - 4:18
Avatar Frontiers of Pandora - 7:27
Alan Wake 2 - 8:28


System:
Windows 11
MSI MPG X670E CARBON
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL38

[shadowlemon]

GTX 1060 - 192 bit
RTX 2060 - 192 bit
RTX 3060 - 192 bit
RTX 4060 - 128 bit

Yes, I'm ignoring the GTX 960's 128-bit bus. But that card was released for $199.

[dmitrykisel]

RTX 3060 with 12gb that it can`t load fully && RTX 4060 that hasnt enough VRAM, what a good time to live

[SkywalkerGaming]

Well, I'm more than happy with my 3060. The 12GB VRAM alone makes it worth.

[Hamza-tufd]

the 40 series main feature is frame gen, but it uses more vram. And for some reason nvidia decided to put less vram to the gpus that need it the most.

[vishnushaji]

4:01 jesus what tf wrong with rtx 4060 here ? suddenly hitting 60w ?

[prabhakardhar]

3060 12gb is a good card tbh.. but sadly, nvidia played very well with 3060ti, 3070, 3070ti .. all of these cards should had atleast 12gb of vram

[amirhb]

Pay attention to the vram usage and ram usage as well 4060 runs put very often at 1440p and has to swap from vram to system ram which will cause stutters depending on how well the game handles it

[Antony]

I am very happy with my rtx 4060. The games that i play don't require much vram anyway and always play at 1080p so for me is an excellent card.

[Joseph_kamura]

3060 lacks the brain and 4060 the memory 🫠

[strudders]

What a generational leap the 4060 is 🙄

[noc]

Although only slightly better on performance, 4060 have almost the same price, have lower power consumption, and quiter fan. It's ofc a win for me.

EDIT: After doing some deeper research I found out that 8GB of vram doesn't make sense for new cards. Read my first comment in this thread for more detail.

[fwixgamer]

if you are planing to use it on 1080p monitor or a 2k monitor + dlss quality = 1080p the 8gb is enough and the 4060 is clear win, but if you are planning to use a 4k monitor the 3060 with it's 12 gb is so weak to even play 1440p games natively, so the 4060 is the best chose if you can get them for the same price, dlss3 is not the selling point bcs you can have it in both 3000 series or 4000 series, a simple 2 files mod and you are good to go with the same quality .

[StudyChannel-ny]

4060 pros
Uses less power
Dlss 3.0
More fps

[Hamza-tufd]

the 3060 12gb will end up better, games are asking for more and more vram.

[snorni]

165W vs 100W is the biggest difference. These two cards in contrary to naming
are different weight classes.

[windwrightmage]

So 2 frames up to even a whopping 7 more frames. Wow. What a great improvement.

[siyzerix]

The rtx 3060 is going to age nicely due to the 12gb of vram and the much larger bus width. Games will use RT more and more commonly, which eats up vram. Same with HQ textures. Already games eat up 12gb of vram just from textures at 1440p in some titles. It will also handle vram heavy tasks better.

As for efficiency, its a desktop, not a laptop. Power draw doesn't matter as much. Infact, if nvidia was so concerned with power efficiency, why didn't they just make the 4060 a 160bit 10gb gpu and limit it to 75w? Likely performed similar to its current form but in a 75w envelope.

Infact, due to the 4060's low vram, it will struggle to use the very features its advertised on, namely FG since it eats up more vram. 8gb is firmly a xx50 class budget gpu tier of vram amount. 4060 should've had 10gb at BARE MINIMUM. 12gb being the real minimum.

[nimaarg]

6700 XT can be found for very low prices these days. It devours both these cards. 7600/XT is also a terrible product.

[huygmchannel]

RTX "4050ti" but price at 299$