NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

5840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +12919%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Sep 2020

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

46

48

Shading Units

5888

24

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

220W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GA104

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GA104-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

392 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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