GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce RTX 3060
GeForce 9600 GT
502
GeForce RTX 3060
17598
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce RTX 3060
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G94
Ampere GA106
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
January 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
1320 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
13,250 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
15000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
360.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
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
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.5
Vulkan
N/A
1.2