NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
Which graphics card should you buy for Stable Diffusion, FLUX, and ComfyUI workflows?
The RTX 3060 12GB beats the RTX 4060 8GB for ComfyUI. The extra 4GB VRAM allows native execution of SDXL models and quantized FLUX.1 without Out of Memory crashes.
✓ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has +4GB more VRAM✓ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 is ~$14 cheaper
NVIDIA
12GB VRAMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
- Est. Local Price:
- $285
- Power Draw (Watts):
- 170W
- Recommended Flags:
- --normalvram
Model Strengths:
- ✓ Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL)
- ✓ Stable Diffusion 1.5
- ✓ Pony Diffusion
NVIDIA
8GB VRAMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- Est. Local Price:
- $299
- Power Draw (Watts):
- 115W
- Recommended Flags:
- --medvram
Model Strengths:
- ✓ Stable Diffusion 1.5
- ✓ Pony Diffusion (SD1.5 fine-tunes)
- ✓ SDXL (with --medvram)
Neither Card Within Your Budget?
Instead of spending hundreds on physical upgrades, rent 24GB RTX 4090s on-demand for $0.34/hr whenever you need to run large workflows.