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GeForce RTX 5050 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The GeForce RTX 5050 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 2% to 25%, including 14% in 3DMark Time Spy (9,954 vs 8,747). On llama3.2:1b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 generates 184.0 tokens/s (per LocalScore.ai) against 93.8 for the GeForce RTX 5050 (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the GeForce RTX 5050 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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Specs side-by-side

SpecGeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb 812
vram type —GDDR6
tdp w —170
cuda cores —3584

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Tweaktown, 3DMark, WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Overclocking.com, Gizbot, TopCPU.net, Club386, Notebookcheck, CpuTronic and TechPowerUp; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkGeForce RTX 5050NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Tweaktown, 3DMark		 27,162 points21,653 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: WCCFTech, Legit Reviews, Tweaktown, Overclocking.com, 3DMark		 6,128 points5,074 points
3DMark Solar Bay (higher is better)
Source: Gizbot		 45,781 points—
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, 3DMark, Tweaktown, Club386, Overclocking.com, Notebookcheck		 2,454 points2,170 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: Tweaktown, Club386, Overclocking.com, 3DMark, CpuTronic, Notebookcheck		 2,287 points1,984 points
3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Graphics Score (higher is better)
Source: 3DMark		 —1,978 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Light (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck		 10,057 points—
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: TopCPU.net, Tweaktown, 3DMark, Gizbot, Notebookcheck		 9,954 points8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy (overall score) (higher is better)
Source: Legit Reviews		 —9,755 points
3DMark Time Spy GPU (higher is better)
Source: TechPowerUp		 21,500 pts—
Blender 3.3 Classroom (CUDA) (higher is better)
Source: Club386		 2,846 points—
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: Gizbot		 90,059 points—

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

GeForce RTX 5050

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the GeForce RTX 5050 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060?

The GeForce RTX 5050 is ahead of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 on all 7 shared benchmarks on file, by 2% to 25%, including 14% in 3DMark Time Spy (9,954 vs 8,747).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama3.2:1b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 generates 184.0 tokens/s (per LocalScore.ai) against 93.8 for the GeForce RTX 5050 (per llama.cpp GitHub Discussions), best community run on file for each.

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