NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB 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 5060 Ti 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 45% (2572MHz vs 1777MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 360.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (170W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
+86%
23.7 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
12.74 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
+78%
15926
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
8935
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
+73%
7342
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
4231
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
+83%
4084
GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
2228
Graphics Card
Apr 2025
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2407 MHz
Base Clock
1320 MHz
2572 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
28
4608
Shading Units
3584
144
TMUs
112
48
ROPs
48
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
123.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
23.70 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
170W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
GA104-150-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
6.6
