NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

3488 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 +4725%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Apr 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

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

12

3584

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

48

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

6.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

195W

TDP

84W

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

GA104

GPU Name

G92

GA104

GPU Variant

-

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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