GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G94

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

December 2008

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

192 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

95 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

19.20

199.0

Memory type

DDR2

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

532 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

17.02 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

2.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2