NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2022
Jan 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1320 MHz
2017 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2407 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
32GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR7
Memory Bus
128bit
512bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
1.79TB/s
Render Config
SM Count
28
170
Shading Units
3584
21760
TMUs
112
680
ROPs
64
176
Tensor Cores
112
680
RT Cores
28
170
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
96 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
113.7 GPixel/s
423.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
1636.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
104.8 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
1.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA104
GB202
GPU Variant
GA104
GB202-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
92.2 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
750 mm²
Board Design
TDP
195W
575W
Suggested PSU
450 W
950 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
1x 16-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.4
CUDA
8.6
12.0
Shader Model
6.7
6.9
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
46,923
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
25,766
3DMark Speed Way
—
14,614
Blender
—
14,945
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.