NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 559.30
$ 294.49
$ 264.81 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
8206 points
1% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
5 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
192 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
139 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
333% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3149 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
3690.41 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
126840 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
0.86% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
120026 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
2280 MHz
52% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
2497 MHz
44% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
Identical
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
145 W
51% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
38% slightly higher pixel rate
119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
5% slightly higher texture rate
299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
53% significantly more shading units
3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
53% significantly more texture mapping units
120

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
100% significantly more render output processors
48

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
51st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 5060 beats the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming performance.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5060 is better than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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