ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition
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ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.73 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 12.42 TFLOPS.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC has 4864 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.70 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 16.49 TFLOPS.

GPU

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 28 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is based on the Ampere architecture and is equipped with 38 execution units.
ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition GPU ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
GP102-350-K1-A1 GPU Chip GA104-200-A1
Pascal Architecture Ampere
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 38
3584 Shader 4864
88 Render Output Units 80
224 Texture Units 152
0 Raytracing Cores 38

Memory

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is equipped with a 11 GB large GDDR5X graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.388 GHz clocks.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

11 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.388 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
11.1 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
352 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition has a turbo clock of 1.733 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is 1.695 GHz.

1.594 GHz Base Clock 1.410 GHz
1.733 GHz Boost Clock 1.695 GHz
1.71 GHz Avg (Game) Clock 1.67 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition has 2 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 91 °C.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 93 °C.

250 W TDP 200 W
-- TDP (up) 220 W
91 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition are cooled with a Water cooling.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is cooled by a Air cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 95 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Water cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 37 dB

Connectivity

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.3
2x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.1
2x DP v1.4 DP Ports 3x DP v1.4a
1 DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
ASUS Aura Sync LED ZOTAC SPECTRA

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition is 50 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is 50 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

298 mm Length 222 mm
158 mm Height 116 mm
50 mm Width 38 mm
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 16 nanometer process, ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum edition was released in Q1/2017.

The ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC published in Q4/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers.

ROG-POSEIDON-GTX1080TI-P11G-GAMING Part-no ZT-A30610H-10M
Q1/2017 Release date Q4/2020
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 449 $
16 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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