NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 3840SP 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1852MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP +3603%

14.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

VS

GeForce 9800 GX2

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1627 MHz

Base Clock

-

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

16

-

Compute Units

-

3840

Shading Units

128

120

TMUs

64

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

9.600 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G92

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G92-450-A2

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

185W

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 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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