NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition
vs
Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition and the Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 and has 2944 texture shaders and 46 execution units.

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, which has 3584 shaders and 28 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition GPU Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
TU104 GPU Chip GA106-300-A1
Turing Architecture Ampere
46 Streaming Multiprocessors 28
2944 Shader 3584
64 Render Output Units 48
184 Texture Units 112
46 Raytracing Cores 28

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has 8 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 496 GB/s.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC can access 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

8 GB Memory Size 12 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.938 GHz Memory Clock 1.875 GHz
15.5 Gbps Memory Speed 15.0 Gbps
496 GB/s Memory bandwidth 360 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition clocks in the base with up to 1.515 GHz. The base frequency of the Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC is 1.320 GHz.

1.515 GHz Base Clock 1.320 GHz
1.800 GHz Boost Clock 1.807 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.78 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 225 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC has a TDP of 170 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

225 W TDP 170 W
250 W TDP (up) --
88 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC has 1 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
35 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
41 dB Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

In the connectivity category, we recorded the number of ports on a graphics card. A total of 4 screens can be connected to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs directly in the graphics card reduces the load when playing or creating videos.

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

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition is 267 mm long, 116 mm high and -- wide.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC is 170 mm long, 125 mm high and 39 mm wide.

267 mm Length 170 mm
116 mm Height 125 mm
-- Width 39 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Founders Edition was released in Q3/2018 at a price of 729 $.

The Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC was introduced in Q1/2021 at a price of 389 $.

-- Part-no NE63060S19K9-190AF
Q3/2018 Release date Q1/2021
729 $ Launch Price 389 $
12 nm Structure size 8 nm
-- 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)

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

2560x1440 (1440p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC
12 GB GDDR6
24 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC Palit GeForce RTX 3060 StormX OC
12 GB GDDR6
59 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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