ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge
vs
PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (Ampere) and has 12 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (RDNA 1) and has 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

GPU

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge has the GA106-300-A1 graphics chip installed, which is based on the Ampere architecture.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon is based on the graphics chip Navi 10 XT, which comes from the RDNA 1 architecture.
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge GPU PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
GA106-300-A1 GPU Chip Navi 10 XT
Ampere Architecture RDNA 1
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 40
3584 Shader 2560
48 Render Output Units 64
112 Texture Units 160
28 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge clocks at 1.875 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 15.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon is 14.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 1.750 GHz.

12 GB Memory Size 8 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
1.875 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
15.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
360 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

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

1.320 GHz Base Clock 1.650 GHz
1.777 GHz Boost Clock 1.905 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.78 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 170 W.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 225 W.

170 W TDP 225 W
-- TDP (up) 335 W
93 °C Tjunction max 99 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
35 dB Noise (Load) 44 dB

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon supports the operation of a maximum of 4 monitors.

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

Featureset

With the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge is connected to the system via PCIe 4.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 4.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

224 mm Length 240 mm
116 mm Height 132 mm
39 mm Width 41 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge has been manufactured with a structure width of 8 nanometers since Q1/2021.

The PowerColor Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon came on the market in Q3/2019 and will have a structure width of 7 nanometers manufactured.

ZT-A30600E-10M Part-no AXRX 5700 XT 8GBD6-3DHR/OC
Q1/2021 Release date Q3/2019
389 $ Launch Price 439 $
8 nm Structure size 7 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

Geekbench 6 - Metal

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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