NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 320W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (10GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
8640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3080
+15405%
29.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 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
1440 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1710 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
10GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
760.3GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
68
64
Shading Units
8704
32
TMUs
272
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
272
-
RT Cores
68
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
5 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
164.2 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
465.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
29.77 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.77 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
465.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
320W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GA102
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA102-200-KD-A1
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
65 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
628 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
