NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1282MHz
More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
3808 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
0.08 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q
+12207%
9.846 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jan 2021
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
817 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1282 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
4
SM Count
30
32
Shading Units
3840
16
TMUs
120
8
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
120
-
RT Cores
30
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
3 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
61.54 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
153.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
9.846 TFLOPS
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
9.846 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
153.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
60W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GA106
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
12 billion
121 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
