NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 and 4 months late

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

Lower TDP (170W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 355.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5060 +14%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 50

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

355.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

36

SM Count

46

4608

Shading Units

5888

144

TMUs

184

48

ROPs

96

144

Tensor Cores

184

36

RT Cores

46

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

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Theoretical Performance

121.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

362.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

23.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

23.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

362.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

170W

TDP

220W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 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

GA104-300-A1

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

6.6

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