GeForce RTX 5060 vs GeForce RTX 5080

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 5080 (84/100)

GeForce RTX 5080 leads overall with a score of 84/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5060 (43/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose GeForce RTX 5060:
  • + Higher Efficiency score (57 vs 48)
Why choose GeForce RTX 5080:
  • + Higher Gaming score (88 vs 43)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Efficiency 57.0 Below Average WINNER 48.0 Poor
Gaming 43.0 Poor 88.0 Very Good WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Fire Strike 37587 75605
Night Raid 134132 199650
Port Royal 8691 23275
Solar Bay 64583 161489
Time Spy 13743 33000
Wild Life Extreme 26179 69617

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
CUDA 12.0 12.0
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 4
DirectX 12.2 12.2
DisplayPort 2.1b 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.4 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
1080p High 136 239
1080p Ultra 114 205
1440p Ultra 85 165
4K Ultra 48 96
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1171088051 250244197135
Counter-Strike 2 23818813174 31723817887
Cyberpunk 2077 99895627 21319213861
Far Cry 6 1251169353 19417115597
Forza Horizon 5 142948458 250186179138
Ghost of Tsushima 85715530 16614212682
Hogwarts Legacy 94795930 18515212467
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 15614110657 306276214111
The Witcher 3 16613710053 27124417290

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 38817 69068
Face Detection (HP) 41955 92863
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8362 15441
Image Segmentation (HP) 22831 47173
Image Super Resolution (Q) 22375 43223
Machine Translation (HP) 5083 7905
Object Detection (SP) 11023 20955
Pose Estimation (Q) 84685 202202
Style Transfer (SP) 155103 349205
Text Classification (SP) 3296 3701

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 209.1 img/sec 319.6 img/sec
Edge Detection 6.13 Gpixels/sec 19.5 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 134.3 img/sec 225 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 2.33 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.39 Gpixels/sec 20.4 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 13.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 18827.5 FPS 43676.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 607.8 Gpixels/sec 1750 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
AMD Equivalent -Radeon RX 9060 XT —
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Desktop
GPU Codename GB206-250 GB203-400
Launch price (MSRP) $299 $999
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 265Kor above
Released April 15, 2025 January 7, 2025
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Base Clock 2280 MHz 2295 MHz
Boost Clock 2500 MHz 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 30 84
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 64MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 30 84
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 112
Shading Units 3840 10752
Tensor Cores 120 336
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 120 336

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 30000 Mbps
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1875 MHz
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
DirectX 11 200 FPS 327 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 145 FPS
G2D Mark 1147 1397
GPU Compute 10392 Ops/s 19034 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Die Size 181 mm² 378 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 89°C —
TGP 145 W 360 W
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 45.6 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 120.63 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Pixel Fill Rate 120 GPixel/s 293 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 300 GTexel/s 879 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 5060 GeForce RTX 5080
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-20->bang GeekBench —
📘 2026-06-01(Nowh) — Cinebench 2024

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