GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
4768 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+5727%
16200
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
Release Date
May 2009
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
700 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
38
SM Count
12
4864
Shading Units
96
152
TMUs
48
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
9.280 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
225W
TDP
140W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
G92
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Tesla
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
65 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
324 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
