NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 46% (2520MHz vs 1725MHz)

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +14%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

4608

184

TMUs

144

96

ROPs

48

184

Tensor Cores

144

46

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GB206

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GB206

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

0 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

220W

TDP

170W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

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

9.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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