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GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 5060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs GeForce RTX 5060. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkGeForce RTX 3060 12 GBGeForce RTX 5060
3DMark Fire Strike 21,653 points34,779 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme —17,893 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra —8,764 points
3DMark Port Royal 5,072 points8,661 points
3DMark Speed Way 2,192 points3,646 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 1,978 points3,194 points
3DMark Time Spy 8,754 points13,731 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme —6,772 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL 82,071 points—
Geekbench 6 Vulkan 91,383 points—
PassMark G2D Mark —1,159 pts
PassMark G3D Mark —20,804 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB

  • llama3.2:1b: 211.9 tok/s
  • llama3.2:1b: 184.0 tok/s
  • llama3.2:3b: 128.3 tok/s

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GeForce RTX 5060

  • qwen3:0.6b: 211.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:0.6b: 211.0 tok/s
  • qwen3:1.7b: 156.4 tok/s

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