NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 +14377%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

GeForce RTX 3060

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2021

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1320 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

504 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

4

SM Count

28

32

Shading Units

3584

16

TMUs

112

8

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

40W

TDP

170W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

GA106

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

GA106-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

UMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

12 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

8.6

4.0

Shader Model

6.6

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