NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 320W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

8608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 +10608%

29.77 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce RTX 3080

Graphics Card

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

760.3GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

68

96

Shading Units

8704

48

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

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

164.2 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

465.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

29.77 TFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.77 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

465.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

320W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 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

G92

GPU Name

GA102

-

GPU Variant

GA102-200-KD-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

65 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

324 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

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