GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1777MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
3520 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060
+6535%
12740
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
192
Graphics Card
Jan 2021
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1320 MHz
Base Clock
-
1777 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1875 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
360.0GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
28
SM Count
8
3584
Shading Units
64
112
TMUs
32
48
ROPs
16
112
Tensor Cores
-
28
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
3 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
85.30 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
199.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
12.74 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
199.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GA106
GPU Name
G94
GA106-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
12 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
276 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
