GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 54% (2572MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16200
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+46%
23700
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+31%
16065
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+26%
7486
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+34%
4152
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Apr 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
2407 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
36
4864
Shading Units
4608
152
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
48
152
Tensor Cores
144
38
RT Cores
36
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
180W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GB206
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
181 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.4
8.6
CUDA
12.0
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
