NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +155%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

9.098 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

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GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2022

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1552 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

20

4608

Shading Units

2560

144

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

80

36

RT Cores

20

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

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Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

130W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

GA106

GB206

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 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

1.3

10.1

CUDA

8.6

6.8

Shader Model

6.6

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