NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

10432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3090 +17005%

35.58 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3090

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1219 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

936.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

82

SM Count

8

10496

Shading Units

64

328

TMUs

32

112

ROPs

16

328

Tensor Cores

-

82

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

6 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

189.8 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

556.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

35.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

35.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

556.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

350W

TDP

95W

750 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

GA102

GPU Name

G94

GA102-300-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Tesla

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

65 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

240 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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