GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 14 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
4800 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+7688%
16200
GeForce 9600 GT
208
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+3422%
12223
GeForce 9600 GT
347
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
Feb 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
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
8
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
10.40 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x S-Video
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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
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
