NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GT and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (125W vs 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GT

0.336 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +3691%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GT

VS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Oct 2022

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

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1875 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

14

SM Count

28

-

Compute Units

-

112

Shading Units

3584

56

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

33.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

199.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.74 TFLOPS

336.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.74 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

199.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

GA106

G92-280-B1

GPU Variant

GA106-302-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

12 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

125W

TDP

170W

300 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 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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