NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (225W vs 575W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2407MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 608.3GB/s)
16896 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090
+546%
104.8 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
GeForce RTX 5090
+288%
47510
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
GeForce RTX 5090
+334%
25825
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
GeForce RTX 5090
+372%
14621
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1410 MHz
Base Clock
2017 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR7
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
170
4864
Shading Units
21760
152
TMUs
680
80
ROPs
176
152
Tensor Cores
680
38
RT Cores
170
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
575W
550 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
GB202
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
750 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
