NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10 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

$ 749.99
$ 294.49
$ 455.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

11608 points
41% slightly better overall score
8206 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

281 FPS
89 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
192 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
45 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

200 FPS
60 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
139 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

111 FPS
36 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
75 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

17631 points
459% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
3149 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4821.52 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
3690.41 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

173309 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
126840 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158661 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
120026 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1440 MHz
2280 MHz
58% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1710 MHz
2497 MHz
46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

320 Bit
150% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

760.3 GB/s
69% significantly higher memory bandwidth
448 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

320 W
145 W
120% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

164.2 Gigapixels/s
36% slightly higher pixel rate
119.9 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

465.1 Gigatexels/s
55% significantly higher texture rate
299.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

8704
126% significantly more shading units
3840

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

272
126% 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

32nd 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

GDDR6X
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 3080 vs GeForce RTX 5060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 over the GeForce RTX 5060.

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