NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 50% (2497MHz vs 1665MHz)
Lower TDP (145W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060
+18%
19.18 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
GeForce RTX 5060
+12%
13735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
GeForce RTX 5060
+8%
6452
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
GeForce RTX 5060
+12%
3494
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 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
2280 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2497 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
30
4864
Shading Units
3840
152
TMUs
120
80
ROPs
48
152
Tensor Cores
120
38
RT Cores
30
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
119.9 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
299.6 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
19.18 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
19.18 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
299.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
145W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
GB206-250-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
