NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 42% (2520MHz vs 1777MHz)

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

18176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +761%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

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GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1.52TB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

170

3584

Shading Units

21760

112

TMUs

680

64

ROPs

192

112

Tensor Cores

680

28

RT Cores

170

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

88 MB

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Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1714 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

109.7 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

109.7 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.714 TFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GB202

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

GB202-400-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

10.1

6.7

Shader Model

6.8

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