NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

3552 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +15825%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

-

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

32

112

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G96C

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

170W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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