GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5090 (96/100)

GeForce RTX 5090 leads overall with a score of 96/100 compared to GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Efficiency 35.0 Poor 48.0 Poor WINNER
Gaming 38.0 Poor 100.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Fire Strike 29571 87569
Night Raid 109862 206648
Port Royal 6971 38202
Solar Bay 54429 236689
Time Spy 11707 46873
Wild Life Extreme 24417 108751

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
CUDA 8.6 12.0
DLSS DLSS 2 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
1080p High 126 299
1080p Ultra 105 254
1440p Ultra 77 207
4K Ultra 43 125
CoD: Modern Warfare III 107997247 334322260184
Counter-Strike 2 22616912164 36326520299
Cyberpunk 2077 92814822 26123316077
Far Cry 6 1141038347 237202190121
Forza Horizon 5 132887554 336247233187
Ghost of Tsushima 82694828 221185175113
Hogwarts Legacy 86735529 24919916697
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1391329553 329302238128
The Witcher 3 1521289247 364327237123

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 25946 85572
Face Detection (HP) 34615 114685
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 7384 18948
Image Segmentation (HP) 19320 55109
Image Super Resolution (Q) 16108 58478
Machine Translation (HP) 4136 8184
Object Detection (SP) 8718 27802
Pose Estimation (Q) 74811 344729
Style Transfer (SP) 153275 687080
Text Classification (SP) 2638 4464

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 185.1 img/sec 333 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.17 Gpixels/sec 33.7 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 108.4 img/sec 298.5 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.15 Gpixels/sec 2.53 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.54 Gpixels/sec 34.5 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.35 Gpixels/sec 21.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 15183 FPS 59146.9 FPS
Stereo Matching 478 Gpixels/sec 2850 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 6700 XT
Architecture Ampere Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GA104 GB202-300
Launch price (MSRP) $399 $1999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i5 12600Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 9 285Kor above
Released December 2, 2020 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Successor -GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Base Clock 1410 MHz 2017 MHz
Boost Clock 1665 MHz 2407 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 38 170
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 96MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 38 170
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 176
Shading Units 4864 21760
Tensor Cores 152 680
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 152 680

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Bus 256-bit 512-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 14000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 32 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
DirectX 11 164 FPS 341 FPS
DirectX 12 78 FPS 179 FPS
G2D Mark 989 1410
GPU Compute 9865 Ops/s 24360 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Die Size 392 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 8 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
TGP 200 W 575 W
Transistor Count 17 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 43.37 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GeForce RTX 5090
Pixel Fill Rate 133 GPixel/s 424 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 253 GTexel/s 1637 GTexel/s

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