NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Full Specs

Summary

5,888 Shaders 1.73GHz	3,840 Shaders 2.49GHz
8GB GDDR6448GB/s	8GB GDDR7354.8GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 20.31 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 19.12 TFLOPS
Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
TDP 220W	TDP 145W
Power Connectors - 1x 12-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR -

Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed1725MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2490MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 650 TOPSINT4 Tensor Sparse	Peak OPS 611.9 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP4 306 TFLOPS FP4 Tensor Sparse 611.9 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP8-16 153 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 306 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 76.49 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 153 TFLOPS
Tensor FP16-16 81.25 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 162.5 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 40.63 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 81.25 TFLOPS	Tensor FP16-16 76.49 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 153 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 38.25 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 76.49 TFLOPS
BF16 20.31 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 40.63 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 81.25 TFLOPS	BF16 19.12 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 38.25 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 76.49 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 20.31 TFLOPS	Tensor TF32 19.12 TFLOPS
FP32 20.31 TFLOPS	FP32 19.12 TFLOPS
FP64 317.4 GFLOPS	FP64 298.8 GFLOPS
Tensor INT4 325 TOPS	Tensor INT4 -
Tensor INT8 162.5 TOPS	Tensor INT8 153 TOPS
Ray 30.64 TOPS	Ray 58 TOPS
Pixel Rate 165.6 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 119.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 317.4 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 298.8 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 5,888 Shaders	Shaders 3,840 Shaders
TMUs 184 TMUs	TMUs 120 TMUs
ROPs 96 ROPs	ROPs 48 ROPs
Tensor Cores 184 T-Cores	Tensor Cores 120 T-Cores
RT Cores 46 RT-Cores	RT Cores 30 RT-Cores
SMs 46 SMs	SMs 30 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock 1.5GHz	Base Clock 2.23GHz
Boost Clock 1.73GHz	Boost Clock 2.49GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 4MB shared

L2 Cache 32MB shared

Memory

8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR7
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 14GT/s	Memory Speed 22.2GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 448GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 354.8GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 220W	TDP 145W
Max Temp 93°C Max	Max Temp 85°C Max

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 4	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP HDCP 2.3	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Ports

3x DisplayPort 1.4 1x HDMI 2.1

3x DisplayPort 2.1 1x HDMI 2.1

Encoder

Encoder Model NVENC 7	Encoder Model NVENC 9
Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) -	Codec AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Decoder

Decoder Model NVDEC 5	Decoder Model NVDEC 6
Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1	Codec MPEG-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 VC-1 VP8 VP9 AVC (H.264) HEVC (H.265) AV1

Card

Form Factor PCIe Card	Form Factor PCIe Card
PCIe 2.1-Slots	PCIe -
Height 112 mm (4.41") Width 242 mm (9.53") Depth 43 mm (1.69")	-
Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans	Cooling Open-Air 2x Fans
Power Connectors 1x 12-Pin	Power Connectors 1x 16-Pin 12VHPWR

Chip

Manufacturer NVIDIA	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer NVIDIA	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture Ampere	Architecture Blackwell
Family GeForce 30	Family GeForce 50
Branding	Branding
Codename NV174	Codename NV196
Chip Variant GA104-150-A1	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Desktop	Market Segment Desktop
Release Date Oct 29, 2020	Release Date May 5, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry Samsung	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 8N	Fabrication Node 4NP
Die Size 393mm²	Die Size 183mm²
Transistor Count 17.4 Billion	Transistor Count 23 Billion
Transistor Density 44.33 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density 125.7 MTr/mm²

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