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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

GPU Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB video cards based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Larger Memory Size: 24GB (24GB vs 16GB)
Higher Bandwidth: 1008 GB/s (1008 GB/s vs 448.0GB/s)
More Shading Units: 10752 (10752 vs 4608)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

Higher Boost Clock: 2572 MHz (1860MHz vs 2572 MHz)
Newer Launch Date: March 2025 (January 2022 vs March 2025)

Basic

NVIDIA

Label Name

NVIDIA

January 2022

Launch Date

March 2025

Desktop

Platform

Desktop

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Model Name

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 50

1560MHz

Base Clock

2407 MHz

1860MHz

Boost Clock

2572 MHz

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

28,300 million

Transistors

Unknown

RT Cores

336

Tensor Cores

Tensor Cores are specialized processing units designed specifically for deep learning, providing higher training and inference performance compared to FP32 training. They enable rapid computations in areas such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and personalized recommendations. The two most notable applications of Tensor Cores are DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and AI Denoiser for noise reduction.

144

336

TMUs

Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) serve as components of the GPU, which are capable of rotating, scaling, and distorting binary images, and then placing them as textures onto any plane of a given 3D model. This process is called texture mapping.

144

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

Ampere

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

Memory Specifications

24GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

The memory bus width refers to the number of bits of data that the video memory can transfer within a single clock cycle. The larger the bus width, the greater the amount of data that can be transmitted instantaneously, making it one of the crucial parameters of video memory. The memory bandwidth is calculated as: Memory Bandwidth = Memory Frequency x Memory Bus Width / 8. Therefore, when the memory frequencies are similar, the memory bus width will determine the size of the memory bandwidth.

128bit

1313MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

1008 GB/s

Bandwidth

Memory bandwidth refers to the data transfer rate between the graphics chip and the video memory. It is measured in bytes per second, and the formula to calculate it is: memory bandwidth = working frequency × memory bus width / 8 bits.

448.0GB/s

Display and Media

1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b

Theoretical Performance

208.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

Pixel fill rate refers to the number of pixels a graphics processing unit (GPU) can render per second, measured in MPixels/s (million pixels per second) or GPixels/s (billion pixels per second). It is the most commonly used metric to evaluate the pixel processing performance of a graphics card.

123.5 GPixel/s

625.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

Texture fill rate refers to the number of texture map elements (texels) that a GPU can map to pixels in a single second.

370.4 GTexel/s

40.00 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy.

23.70 TFLOPS

625.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy, while single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

370.4 GFLOPS

39.2 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

An important metric for measuring GPU performance is floating-point computing capability. Single-precision floating-point numbers (32-bit) are used for common multimedia and graphics processing tasks, while double-precision floating-point numbers (64-bit) are required for scientific computing that demands a wide numeric range and high accuracy. Half-precision floating-point numbers (16-bit) are used for applications like machine learning, where lower precision is acceptable.

24.174 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

SM Count

Multiple Streaming Processors (SPs), along with other resources, form a Streaming Multiprocessor (SM), which is also referred to as a GPU's major core. These additional resources include components such as warp schedulers, registers, and shared memory. The SM can be considered the heart of the GPU, similar to a CPU core, with registers and shared memory being scarce resources within the SM.

10752

Shading Units

The most fundamental processing unit is the Streaming Processor (SP), where specific instructions and tasks are executed. GPUs perform parallel computing, which means multiple SPs work simultaneously to process tasks.

4608

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

6MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

450W

TDP

180W

1.3

Vulkan Version

Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics and compute API by Khronos Group, offering high performance and low CPU overhead. It lets developers control the GPU directly, reduces rendering overhead, and supports multi-threading and multi-core processors.

1.4

3.0

OpenCL Version

3.0

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

8.6

CUDA

10.1

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

112

ROPs

The Raster Operations Pipeline (ROPs) is primarily responsible for handling lighting and reflection calculations in games, as well as managing effects like anti-aliasing (AA), high resolution, smoke, and fire. The more demanding the anti-aliasing and lighting effects in a game, the higher the performance requirements for the ROPs; otherwise, it may result in a sharp drop in frame rate.

6.6

Shader Model

6.8

850W

Suggested PSU

450 W