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

Side-by-side comparison of 2 GPU parts: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Release years: 2021, 2025. MSRP range: $329 · $429. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

12 GB VRAM170W TDP$329 MSRP2021

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Blackwell

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

16 GB VRAM180W TDP$429 MSRP2025

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti benchmarks →

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

Where to buy

Current in-stock pricing for each part on Amazon.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
vram gb	12	16
vram type	GDDR6	GDDR7
tdp w	170	180
cuda cores	3584	4608

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	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike	21,653 points	40,925 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra	—	9,437 points
3DMark Port Royal	5,264 points	9,944 points
3DMark Speed Way	2,159 points	4,055 points
3DMark Steel Nomad	1,984 points	3,455 points
3DMark Time Spy	8,747 points	15,389 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme	—	7,136 points
PassMark G2D Mark	984 pts	1,196 pts
PassMark G3D Mark	16,969 pts	22,264 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy	12 rank	16 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.