NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X +8337%

16.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

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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

1410 MHz

Base Clock

-

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

608.3GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

4864

Shading Units

64

152

TMUs

32

80

ROPs

16

152

Tensor Cores

-

38

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

G94

GA104-202-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

95W

550 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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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