NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Sep 2021
Jun 2025
Generation
GeForce 30
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x8

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
1320 MHz
2317 MHz
Boost Clock
1777 MHz
2572 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
2500 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
12GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
360.0GB/s
320.0GB/s

Render Config

SM Count
28
20
Shading Units
3584
2560
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
112
80
RT Cores
28
20
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
3 MB
24 MB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
85.30 GPixel/s
82.30 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
199.0 GTexel/s
205.8 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
12.74 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.74 TFLOPS
13.17 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
199.0 GFLOPS
205.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
GA104
GB207
GPU Variant
GA104-150-A1
GB207-300-A1
Architecture
Ampere
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
5 nm
Transistors
17.4 billion
16.9 billion
Die Size
392 mm²
Unknown

Board Design

TDP
170W
130W
Suggested PSU
450 W
300 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
1x 12-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

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