NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 54% (2572MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (180W vs 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+46%
23.7 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+31%
16065
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
12223
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+26%
7486
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
5941
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
+34%
4152
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
3097
Graphics Card
Apr 2025
Release Date
Oct 2022
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2407 MHz
Base Clock
1410 MHz
2572 MHz
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
38
4608
Shading Units
4864
144
TMUs
152
48
ROPs
80
144
Tensor Cores
152
36
RT Cores
38
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
123.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
23.70 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GA104
GB206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
181 mm²
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
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
8.6
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
