GeForce RTX 5060 vs RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking96not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.26no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameno dataGB206
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores46084608
Core clock speedno data2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)170 Watt
Texture fill rateno data362.9
Floating-point processing powerno data23.22 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data80 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile has 47.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile and GeForce RTX 5060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 5060 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
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