GeForce 9600 GTX and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GTX

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G92

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2009

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

580 MHz

1320 MHz

Floating-point performance

278.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

27.84

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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