NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2022
May 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1515 MHz
2280 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
2497 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR7
Memory Bus
128bit
128bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
18
30
Shading Units
2304
3840
TMUs
72
120
ROPs
32
48
Tensor Cores
72
120
RT Cores
18
30
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
119.9 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
299.6 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
19.18 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
299.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA106
GB206
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
GB206-250-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
12 billion
21.9 billion
Die Size
276 mm²
181 mm²
Board Design
TDP
130W
145W
Suggested PSU
300 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 8-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
6.6
6.8
📊 Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
-
13,735
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
6,452
3DMark Speed Way
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3,494