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Comparing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs. 5090

Below you can compare the latest GPU-s across multiple benchmarks. Explore detailed graphs, performance scores, and rankings to quickly find the model that best suits your workflow and creative needs.

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Verdict

The RTX 3060 is 85% slower than the RTX 5090

Averaged over 3 rendering benchmarks, the RTX 5090 leads in 3 of them. The biggest gap is in V-Ray, where the RTX 5090 scores 615% higher.

275 · RTX 3060
1,729 · RTX 5090
7,755 · RTX 3060
52,779* · RTX 5090
1,473 · RTX 3060
10,531 · RTX 5090
2,337 · RTX 3060
14,984 · RTX 5090

Scores marked with * are estimated from the other benchmarks we have for that device.

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Price and value

RTX 3060 No reliable price in United States Fewer than five shops list it new.
RTX 5090 $4,322 Typical lowest new price, 18 shops

Google Shopping United States: typical lowest new price on 5 Oct 2026, excl. sales tax

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frames at min per frame on the RTX 3060
RTX 3060
20 h 50 min
RTX 5090
3 h 19 min
Drop & Render
4 min 50× faster
Sapphire 8 min €21.00
Emerald 5 min €33.60
Diamond 4 min €63.00

Estimated with our live price calculator for 250 frames. Local times scale with OctaneBench 2025 scores; farm times assume enough free nodes. From €21.00 on Sapphire.

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Ranking by benchmarks

OctaneBench 2025

Cinebench 2024

V-Ray benchmark

Blender benchmark

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Methodology

Our data above is compiled from multiple sources:

  • Our own benchmarks: We conduct extensive testing with the GPU and CPU models we use on the farm. Over the past 10 years we have tested over 1,000 GPUs and 500 CPUs.

  • Model scores: Once we have two or more benchmarks for a device we can perform some machine learning computations to estimate a realistic score in any of the other benchmarks we list. These are always marked with an asterisk (*), and while usually accurate shouldn't be taken as the complete truth.

  • Public benchmark data: We may supplement our dataset with scores from public OctaneBench, V-Ray Benchmark and Blender Benchmark websites. We cannot test every device available ourselves, so this gives us a nice alternative to get You the results you are looking for.

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