NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +6736%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

8

3840

Shading Units

64

120

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G94

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

276 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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