Question RTX 3060 against 4060 - who wins?

[Perene]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_wfUTlf5Ns


The 3060 has 12 GB of RAM, against 8 from the 4060...

If you could only choose one of them, who would be the better choice?

RTX 3060 Asus Dual O12G V2 NVIDIA GeForce, 12GB GDDR6, LHR, DLSS, Ray Tracing - DUAL-RTX3060-O12G-V2

or

4060 VENTUS 2x Black OC MSI NVIDIA GeForce, 8GB GDDR6, DLSS, Ray Tracing

For example

 

[Karadjgne]

3060.
The only advantage the 4060 has over the 3060 is the DLSS is marginally better, as is the ray tracing, but since you really don't use ray tracing much on a lower ranked card, it in itself is almost pointless.

The fps difference is marginal at best, in some more ram dependant games or apps the 3060 beats the 4060. Not to mention the 4060 is not only gimped by bandwidth but also a hardwired x8 4.0 card so suffers badly on a pcie3.0 system, making it a lousy upgrade for older PCs.

Who wins? Nvidia, cuz you bought either one.

 

[renz496]

Not to mention the 4060 is not only gimped by bandwidth but also a hardwired x8 4.0 card so suffers badly on a pcie3.0 system, making it a lousy upgrade for older PCs.

only if you try to use higher setting that require more than 8GB VRAM. but if you do that 8GB card is not for you from the start. else it should be fine. even 2080Ti which a much faster card only take less than 5% performance hit when limited to PCIE 3 x8

 

[Avro Arrow]

I would take the 3060 over the 4060 all day for its 12GB of VRAM.

 

[Karadjgne]

only if you try to use higher setting that require more than 8GB VRAM. but if you do that 8GB card is not for you from the start. else it should be fine. even 2080Ti which a much faster card only take less than 5% performance hit when limited to PCIE 3 x8

If you deliberately gimped a 2080ti to pcie3.0 x8, you deserve to take the hit when pcie3.0 x16 was fully available option. With the 4060, it's not an option, it's a x8 card only, you only get x8 whether pcie4.0 or pcie3.0, with which you just lost half the bandwidth.

The hit to the slower card is much larger. AMD was fortunate enough to learn that pearl of wisdom with the Rx 6500 which lost serious fps on pcie3.0, which was exponentially worse with higher/max settings as the card was only doing 40-50 fps in pcie4.0.