NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 3 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (2572MHz vs 1860MHz)
Lower TDP (180W vs 450W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1008GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
6144 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
23.7 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+68%
40 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
16065
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+35%
21832
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
7486
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+51%
11318
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB
4152
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
+42%
5903
Graphics Card
Apr 2025
Release Date
Jan 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
1560 MHz
2572 MHz
Boost Clock
1860 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1313 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6X
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1008GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
84
4608
Shading Units
10752
144
TMUs
336
48
ROPs
112
144
Tensor Cores
336
36
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
123.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
208.3 GPixel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
625.0 GTexel/s
23.70 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
40.00 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
40.00 TFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
625.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
450W
450 W
Suggested PSU
850 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GA102
GB206-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-350-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
628 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
6.6
