NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 16GB and has 4608 texture shaders and 36 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which has 10752 shaders and 84 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 16GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
GB206 GPU Chip GA102-350-A1
Blackwell Architecture Ampere
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 84
4608 Shader 10752
48 Render Output Units 112
144 Texture Units 336
36 Raytracing Cores 84

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 16 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR7 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition can access 24 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 1008 GB/s.

16 GB Memory Size 24 GB
GDDR7 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.750 GHz Memory Clock 1.313 GHz
28.0 Gbps Memory Speed 21.0 Gbps
448 GB/s Memory bandwidth 1008 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 384 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB clocks in the base with up to 2.407 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is 1.670 GHz.

2.407 GHz Base Clock 1.670 GHz
2.572 GHz Boost Clock 1.860 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is 180 W (Reference). The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition has a TDP of 450 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 16-Pin PCIe power connectors.

180 W (Reference) TDP 450 W
-- TDP (up) --
85 °C Tjunction max 92 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 16-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has a total of 0 -- fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 110 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 42 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is -- long, -- high and -- wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition is 313 mm long, 138 mm high and -- wide.

-- Length 313 mm
-- Height 138 mm
-- Width --
-- Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB was released in Q2/2025 at a price of 429 $ (Reference).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Founders Edition was introduced in Q1/2022 at a price of 1,999 $ (Reference).

-- Part-no --
Q2/2025 Release date Q1/2022
429 $ (Reference) Launch Price 1,999 $ (Reference)
4 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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