Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB
vs
Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

In the gpu comparison between the Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB and the Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB, we compare both the technical data and the benchmark results of the two graphics cards.

GPU

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB is based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB and has 8960 texture shaders and 70 execution units.

Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, which has 1024 shaders and 8 execution units.
Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB GPU Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GA102 GPU Chip GM206-300-A1
Ampere Architecture Maxwell 2.0
70 Streaming Multiprocessors 8
8960 Shader 1024
112 Render Output Units 32
280 Texture Units 64
70 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB has 12 GB of graphics memory of the type GDDR6X and achieves a memory bandwidth of 912 GB/s.

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB can access 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory and thus achieves a memory bandwidth of 112 GB/s.

12 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6X Memory Type GDDR5
1.188 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
19.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
912 GB/s Memory bandwidth 112 GB/s
384 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB clocks in the base with up to 1.260 GHz. The base frequency of the Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is 1.165 GHz.

1.260 GHz Base Clock 1.165 GHz
1.710 GHz Boost Clock 1.228 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB is 350 W. The graphics card is supplied with energy via the 2 x 8-Pin connector.

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB has a TDP of 120 W and is supplied with the required energy via 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connectors.

350 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
93 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
2 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 6-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB has a total of 3 Axial fans.

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB has 1 Radial fans to cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Radial
3 x 90 mm Fan 1 1 x 65 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

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 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB.

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB supports a maximum of 4 screens.

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

Featureset

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB supports a maximum resolution of 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum resolution of the Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is 4096x2160 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_1
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
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 No
Decode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB is 318 mm long, 121 mm high and 63 mm wide.

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB is 247 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

318 mm Length 247 mm
121 mm Height 112 mm
63 mm Width --
3 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

The Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity LHR 12GB was released in Q1/2022 at a price of 699 $ (Reference).

The Palit GeForce GTX 960 OC 4GB was introduced in Q1/2015 at a price of 229 $.

ZT-A30820D-10PLHR Part-no NE5X960010G1F
Q1/2022 Release date Q1/2015
699 $ (Reference) Launch Price 229 $
8 nm Structure size 28 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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