GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060. All released in 2021. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Blackwell

GeForce RTX 5060

Full GeForce RTX 5060 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

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Specs side-by-side

Spec	GeForce RTX 5060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
vram gb	—	12
vram type	—	GDDR6
tdp w	—	170
cuda cores	—	3584

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.

Benchmark	GeForce RTX 5060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
3DMark Fire Strike	34,779 points	21,653 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme	17,893 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra	8,764 points	—
3DMark Port Royal	8,661 points	5,264 points
3DMark Speed Way	3,646 points	2,159 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	3,194 points	1,984 points
3DMark Time Spy	13,731 points	8,747 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	6,772 points	—
PassMark G2D Mark	1,159 pts	984 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	20,804 pts	16,969 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy	16 rank	12 rank

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.