NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

136% significantly better overall score

5925 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

217 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

116 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

89 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

80 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

129 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

112 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

73 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

3522.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

104383 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

47% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

143% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

45 W

677% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

171% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

267% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

215% significantly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

215% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th of 586

84th 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3090 has a significantly 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 3090 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 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop.