GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1725MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
5792 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 220W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3070
+7593%
20310
GeForce 9600 GSO
264
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Apr 2008
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1500 MHz
Base Clock
-
1725 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
12
5888
Shading Units
96
184
TMUs
48
96
ROPs
12
184
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 KB
Theoretical Performance
165.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
317.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
20.31 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
20.31 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
317.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
220W
TDP
84W
550 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
GA104
GPU Name
G92
GA104-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
324 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
