NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 +6535%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 GA104

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Sep 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

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

360.0GB/s

Render Config

-

8

SM Count

28

64

Shading Units

3584

32

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

112

-

RT Cores

28

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

85.30 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

170W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GA104-150-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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