NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

6815 points

16967 points

148% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

167 FPS

394 FPS

227 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

80 FPS

213 FPS

133 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

118 FPS

288 FPS

171 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

63 FPS

163 FPS

100 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3000.82 points

7942.06 points

164% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

112303 points

215096 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

115945 points

191283 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1410 MHz

42% slightly higher core clock speed

990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1665 MHz

9% slightly higher boost clock speed

1515 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

Identical

256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

896 GB/s

100% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

200 W

95 W

110% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

133.2 Gigapixels/s

169.7 Gigapixels/s

27% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

253.1 Gigatexels/s

496.9 Gigatexels/s

96% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

4864

10496

115% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

152

328

115% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 597

14th of 597

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 December

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 95 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti at 200 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.