NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1282MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

3808 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q +12207%

9.846 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Max Q

VS

GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

817 MHz

Base Clock

-

1282 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

4

3840

Shading Units

32

120

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

8

120

Tensor Cores

-

30

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

61.54 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

153.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

9.846 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.846 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

153.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G96C

-

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

55 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

121 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

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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