NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +82%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

28

4608

Shading Units

3584

144

TMUs

112

48

ROPs

64

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

113.7 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

Board Design

170W

TDP

195W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB206

GPU Name

GA104

GB206

GPU Variant

GA104

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

0

Process Size

8 nm

Unknown

Transistors

17.4 billion

Unknown

Die Size

392 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

6.7

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