ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and has 3584 texture shaders and 28 execution units.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, which has 8704 shaders and 68 execution units.
ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
GA106-300-A1 GPU Chip GA102-200-K1-A1
Ampere Architecture Ampere
28 Streaming Multiprocessors 68
3584 Shader 8704
48 Render Output Units 96
112 Texture Units 272
28 Raytracing Cores 68

Memory

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6 and achieves a memory bandwidth of 360 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition can access 10 GB GDDR6X graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 760 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 10 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6X
1.875 GHz Memory Clock 1.188 GHz
15.0 Gbps Memory Speed 19.0 Gbps
360 GB/s Memory bandwidth 760 GB/s
192 bit Memory Interface 320 bit

Clock Speeds

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC clocks in the base with up to 1.320 GHz. The base frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is 1.440 GHz.

1.320 GHz Base Clock 1.440 GHz
1.807 GHz Boost Clock 1.710 GHz
1.78 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC is 170 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 1 x 8-Pin connector.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition has a TDP of 320 W and is supplied with the required energy via 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors.

170 W TDP 320 W
-- TDP (up) 370 W
93 °C Tjunction max 93 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC has a total of 2 Axial fans.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition has 2 Axial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 85 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
35 dB Noise (Load) 43 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 ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is 7680x4320 pixels.

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

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
Decode AV1 Decode
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC is 224 mm long, 116 mm high and 39 mm wide.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is 285 mm long, 110 mm high and -- wide.

224 mm Length 285 mm
116 mm Height 110 mm
39 mm Width --
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight 1350 g
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16

Additional data

The ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC was released in Q1/2021 at a price of 399 $.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition was introduced in Q3/2020 at a price of 699 $.

ZT-A30600H-10M Part-no --
Q1/2021 Release date Q3/2020
399 $ Launch Price 699 $
8 nm Structure size 8 nm
data sheet Documents --

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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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