Head to head

RTX 3090 vs RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

The RTX 3090 holds more — 24 GB against 16 GB — which decides what you can load at all. The RTX 3090 has more bandwidth at 936 GB/s, which decides how fast tokens come out once a model fits.

Model (Q4_K_M, 8K)RTX 3090tok/sRTX 4060 Ti 16GBtok/s
Llama 3.1 8B Runs comfortably 112 Runs comfortably 33.6
Llama 3.1 70B Won't fit 1.67 Won't fit 1.17
Llama 3.2 3B Runs comfortably 246 Runs comfortably 74.8
Llama 3.2 1B Runs comfortably 650 Runs comfortably 200
Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B Won't fit 5.39 Won't fit 4.28
Qwen3 8B Runs comfortably 108 Runs comfortably 32.5
Qwen3 14B Runs comfortably 63.5 Runs comfortably 18.9
Qwen3 32B Fits, but tight 29.5 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen3 4B Runs comfortably 196 Runs comfortably 59.6
Qwen3 30B-A3B Runs comfortably 117 Won't fit 32.0
Qwen3 235B-A22B Won't fit 3.36 Won't fit 3.01
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Fits, but tight 29.5 Won't fit 3.71
Qwen2.5 7B Runs comfortably 125 Runs comfortably 37.3
Qwen2.5 72B Won't fit 1.59 Won't fit 1.13
Gemma 3 4B Runs comfortably 209 Runs comfortably 63.6
Gemma 3 12B Runs comfortably 76.1 Runs comfortably 22.8

Specifications

RTX 3090RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
Memory24 GB16 GB
Bandwidth936 GB/s288 GB/s
FP16 compute71 TFLOPS44 TFLOPS
Launch price$1,499$499
ArchitectureAmpereAda