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

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB. 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 5060GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB
3DMark Fire Strike 34,779 points21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme 17,893 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra 8,764 points—
3DMark Port Royal 8,661 points5,072 points
3DMark Speed Way 3,646 points2,192 points
3DMark Steel Nomad 3,194 points1,978 points
3DMark Time Spy 13,731 points8,754 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 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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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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