NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (507.2GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (115W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile +41%

18.06 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

VS

GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

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

2500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

507.2GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

28

3584

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

32

112

Tensor Cores

112

28

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

282.2 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

18.06 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.06 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

282.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

115W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GB206

GA104-150-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

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

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

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