Dual fan single 8-pin power supply, ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC out-of-the-box review

ZOTAC GAMING's high-end RTX 3080 Amp Holo graphics card has been reviewed before, this time it is corresponding to its launch of RTX 3060 Ti graphics card for the mainstream entry-level gaming market, ZOTAC GAMING launched RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge and its OC version, we received this time It's the latter, the pre-overclocked version. Originally, the dynamic clock of NVIDIA for the RTX 3060 Ti public version card was set to 1670 MHz. This time, ZOTAC reduced the clock to 1665 MHz in the non-OC version, while the OC version was adjusted to 1695 MHz, which means that Compared with the public version, the performance will be slightly improved; as for the appearance between the two, only the logo design in the center of the fan is slightly different.

Dual Fan IceStorm 2.0 System

Compared with the holographic aurora design of the big brother RTX 3080 Amp Holo, the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is relatively low-key, and does not visually import too many RGB lighting effects. The position of the effect falls on the ZOTAC GAMING white LED lighting effect in the upper row, and the rest maintains a low-key black chrome design.

However, in the cooling system part, ZOTAC GAMING has taken a sophisticated route corresponding to its own graphics cards, and designed its graphics cards below the RTX 3070 level to have dual-fan cooling, which can reduce the size of the graphics card while maintaining performance. RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge The OC is 222.1 x 115.6 x 38.2 mm in size and has a thickness of 2-slot design. With its power supply, it only needs a single 8-pin power supply, making it easier to install more mainstream mid-tower and Mini-ITX cases.

In addition, three sets of DisplayPort 1.4a and one set of HDMI 2.1 are provided in the video input and output ports, both of which can output up to 8K@60Hz video, and the latter can also achieve 4K@120Hz performance on the corresponding HDMI cable.

In the heat dissipation design part, the IceStorm 2.0 system is also introduced. This part basically adopts the same design as the big brother, including 11 fan blades and special internal aluminum heat dissipation fins, etc. In addition, there is also the introduction of the FREEZE fan automatic stop function. , which can automatically stop the fan rotation according to different GPU usage environments to prolong its life.

Actual performance test

Just talk and don't practice! Directly let the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC graphics card test on the computer, it will also be tested with common software and several games, and data such as burn-in temperature and power consumption will be recorded for players' reference. In addition, it is worth noting that since the number of RTX 30 series samples is still extremely targeted at this stage, we will not disassemble the graphics card this time to avoid affecting the performance of subsequent borrowing tests. The hardware specifications for this test are attached below:

CPU: Intel Core i9-10900K

Cooler: Fractal Design Celsius+ S36 Dynamic

GPU: ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge

MB: AORUS Z490 Master

RAM: XPG GAMMIX D10 DDR4-3200 8GB x2

SSD: WD Black NVMe 500GB

PSU: Fractal Design Ion+ 760W Platinum

Driver: GeForce Game Ready 460.89

It can be seen from GPU-Z that it is equipped with a GA104 chip, Samsung 8nm process, 4864 CUDA cores, a total of 8GB GDDR6 memory, a bandwidth of 448 GB/s, and a basic dynamic clock of 1410 / 1695MHz.

In the common 3DMark test performance, it can be found that the Time Spy index data is 11863 points, and the Fire Strike is 23934 points. Under the same hardware specifications, it is equivalent to the performance of the previous generation RTX 2080 Super level, which is also in line with NVIDIA the original setting.

From the actual game FPS data, it can be found that the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is basically no suspense at the 1080p resolution setting, especially such as "Electric Rebel 2077", "Black Ops: Cold War", "Assassin's Creed: Dimension" 3A-level games such as "Jingjiyuan" can have a good stable performance. Even if the test resolution is increased to 1440p, the average game is above 60 FPS, and the performance is remarkable. It will not be enough until the resolution is raised to 2160p. After all, most games in high picture quality require the 8GB memory of the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC required by the hardware. It's hard work, but some of them, such as "Black Ops: Cold War", "Electric Rider 2077" and "Tomb Raider: Shadow", are still above 60 FPS, which is worthy of praise. The performance of other e-sports games such as "Special War Heroes" is no longer a problem. They still have an average of 230 FPS or more at 2160p, but players who love these kinds of games generally still play at 1080p or 1440p resolution. It is mainly for gaming, but the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC is more than enough.

Use FurMark to conduct a 2160p high-pressure long-term burn-in test for the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC for 1hr. As can be seen from the above pictures, the average temperature falls at about 68 degrees, and the highest temperature is 70 degrees for a short time, but the RTX 3060 Ti Twin The IceStorm 2.0 system of the Edge OC quickly pressed it down and stabilized, and the cooling performance part was very good.

In addition, the average power consumption is about 199W, which also corresponds to the official 200W power consumption data of ZOTAC GAMING. In terms of this test platform specification, although the Core i9-10900K processor (not overclocked) is used with 760W Platinum Power supply, but generally speaking, if the player does not perform any overclocking, the official recommended 650W power supply is not a big problem.

Stable 1440p performance

To sum up, although the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC graphics card looks small and beautiful in appearance, the simple and low-key design of the whole display card actually won my heart, but the internal performance has not been discounted because of this. The positioning of RTX 3060 Ti This is a mainstream entry-level graphics card, and the RTX 3060 Ti Twin Edge OC has a very good performance on average at 1080p resolution. Even at 1440p, it can play at a stable 60 FPS, and it is very good in basic performance. of.

The heat dissipation and power consumption are well controlled, the temperature falls within a safe 70 degrees, and the power consumption is only about 200W, which is a very friendly positioning for ordinary players, coupled with the small size design of the entire graphics card, Players can easily assemble it in a Mini-ITX case, and if it is used in a non-overclocking or high-voltage environment, the rest of the components, such as the power supply, do not need to be rushed to 800W or even more than 1000 kilowatts like the RTX 3080 or above. The level is stable enough, which is quite friendly to the player's wallet.

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