GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages
Released 12 years late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
10144 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
+12166%
34100
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
May 2021
Release Date
May 2009
GeForce 30
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1365 MHz
Base Clock
-
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
80
SM Count
12
10240
Shading Units
96
320
TMUs
48
112
ROPs
16
320
Tensor Cores
-
80
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
6 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
186.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
532.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
34.10 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
34.10 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
532.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
350W
TDP
140W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
GA102
GPU Name
G92
GA102-225-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
628 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
