NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages
Lower TDP (145W vs 360W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 5% (2617MHz vs 2497MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
6912 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060
19.18 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5080
+193%
56.28 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 5060
13735
GeForce RTX 5080
+141%
33116
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce RTX 5060
6452
GeForce RTX 5080
+157%
16627
3DMark Speed Way
GeForce RTX 5060
3494
GeForce RTX 5080
+166%
9296
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Jan 2025
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2280 MHz
Base Clock
2295 MHz
2497 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR7
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
30
SM Count
84
3840
Shading Units
10752
120
TMUs
336
48
ROPs
112
120
Tensor Cores
336
30
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
64 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
119.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
19.18 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
145W
TDP
360W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
GB203
GB206-250-A1
GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
378 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
1.4
12.0
CUDA
10.1
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
