GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GA104
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G94
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
September 2021
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 12-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
1777 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
-
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
170 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
199.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
12 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
15 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual 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