RTX 3060 12GB vs RTX 5090

For running local LLMs · 17 reports across 4 models

Side A

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 12GB
Memory: Discrete

Side B

Vendor: nvidia
VRAM: 32GB
Memory: Discrete

Tokens per second by model

Model	RTX 3060 12GB	RTX 5090
Qwen3.6up to 35B	70.0n=3	3238.0n=7
Gemma 4up to 31B	60.0n=2	578.0n=3
Kimi K2.6	—	—n=1
Qwen2.5	—	—n=1

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