Head to head

RTX 4060 Ti 16GB vs RTX 3060 12GB

The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB holds more — 16 GB against 12 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The RTX 3060 12GB has more bandwidth at 360 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 4060 Ti 16GBtok/sRTX 3060 12GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 33.6 Runs comfortably 43.7
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.17 Won't fit 1.13
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 74.8 Runs comfortably 97.2
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 200 Runs comfortably 260
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 4.28 Won't fit 4.27
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 32.5 Runs comfortably 42.3
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 18.9 Won't fit 22.1
Qwen3 32B Won't fit 3.71 Won't fit 3.06
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 59.6 Runs comfortably 77.4
Qwen3 30B-A3B Won't fit 32.0 Won't fit 26.1
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.01 Won't fit 3.07
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Won't fit 3.71 Won't fit 3.06
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 37.3 Runs comfortably 48.5
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.13 Won't fit 1.08
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 63.6 Runs comfortably 82.6
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 22.8 Runs comfortably 29.7

Specifications

RTX 4060 Ti 16GBRTX 3060 12GB
Memory16 GB12 GB
Bandwidth288 GB/s360 GB/s
FP16 compute44 TFLOPS25 TFLOPS
Launch price$499$329
ArchitectureAdaAmpere