GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G96
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
September 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
-
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
+
8.6
OpenCL
1.1
3.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.6
Vulkan
N/A
1.3