NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

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

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.52TB/s vs 360.0GB/s)

18176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (170W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5090 +761%

109.7 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090

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GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Sep 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

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.52TB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

170

SM Count

28

21760

Shading Units

3584

680

TMUs

112

192

ROPs

48

680

Tensor Cores

112

170

RT Cores

28

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

88 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

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Theoretical Performance

483.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

1714 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

109.7 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

109.7 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

1.714 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

170W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

GB202

GPU Name

GA104

GB202-400-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-150-A1

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

4 nm

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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