NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3456 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (170W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 +3217%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Mar 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

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

16

3584

Shading Units

128

112

TMUs

64

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

197W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G92

GA104-150-KC-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

324 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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