ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and has 3840 texture shaders and 30 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, which has 5888 shaders and 46 execution units.
ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
GB206-250-A1 GPU Chip GA104-300-A1
Blackwell 2.0 Architecture Ampere
30 Streaming Multiprocessors 46
3840 Shader 5888
48 Render Output Units 96
120 Texture Units 184
30 Raytracing Cores 46

Memory

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR7 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition can access 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR7 Memory Type GDDR6
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
28.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 clocks in the base with up to 2.280 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 1.500 GHz.

2.280 GHz Base Clock 1.500 GHz
2.527 GHz Boost Clock 1.725 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 is 145 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition has a TDP of 220 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

145 W (Reference) TDP 220 W
-- TDP (up) 240 W
89 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
3 x 80 mm Fan 1 2 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
3x DP v2.1b DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 is 268 mm long, 120 mm high and 50 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition is 242 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

268 mm Length 242 mm
120 mm Height 112 mm
50 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1034 g
PCIe 5 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The ASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 was released in Q2/2025 at a price of 299 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition was introduced in Q4/2020 at a price of 499 $.

PRIME-RTX5060-8G Part-no --
Q2/2025 Release date Q4/2020
299 $ (Reference) Launch Price 499 $
5 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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