NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

3520 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB +6535%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Dec 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

266 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

28

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G94

GA106-302-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

Board Design

170W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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