NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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

More VRAM (12GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

3536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +10516%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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

1000 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

6

3584

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

12

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G94

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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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