Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition
vs
Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Pascal) and has 11 GB GDDR5X graphics memory with a bandwidth of 484 GB/s.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Ampere) and has 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

GPU

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has the GP102-350-K1-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Pascal architecture.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC is based on the graphics chip GA106-300-A1, which comes from the Ampere architecture.
Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition GPU Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
GP102-350-K1-A1 GPU Chip GA106-300-A1
Pascal Architecture Ampere
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
3584 Shader 3584
88 Render Output Units 48
224 Texture Units 112
0 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The graphics memory of the Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition clocks at 1.376 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 11.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC is 15.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.875 GHz.

11 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR5X Memory Type GDDR6
1.376 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
11.0 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
484 GB/s Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s
352 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.480 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
1.582 GHz Boost Clock 1.837 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.78 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is powered by 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 250 W.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 180 W.

250 W TDP 180 W
-- TDP (up) 180 W
91 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is equipped with a total of 1 Radial main fans.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Radial Fan-Type Axial
1 x 70 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) 36 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_1 DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
No Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED Addressable LED

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

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

Dimensions

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

-- Length 245 mm
-- Height 119 mm
-- Width 40 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The Colorful GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition has been manufactured with a structure width of 16 nanometers since Q1/2017.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC came on the market in Q1/2021 and will have a structure width of 8 nanometers manufactured.

-- Part-no NE63060T19K9-190AD
Q1/2017 Release date Q1/2021
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 459 $
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)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
30 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
36 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
57 fps (avg)

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)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
9 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
25 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 Dual OC
12 GB GDDR6
60 fps (avg)

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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