NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

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

1024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +82%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1320 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

2500 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

36

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

4608

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

48

144

Tensor Cores

112

36

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

GA106

GB206

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0 nm

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

12 billion

Unknown

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

170W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-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

9.1

CUDA

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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