NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (360.0GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

3568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 +43831%

12.74 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT

0.029 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060

VS

GeForce 9400 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Aug 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

600 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

360.0GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

2

3584

Shading Units

16

112

TMUs

8

48

ROPs

4

112

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

3 MB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.836 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.672 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.38 GFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

170W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

G86

GA106-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

80 nm

12 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

127 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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