GeForce 9600 GTX and GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
G92
GN20-E7 GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
May 2009
January 2021
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1245 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
780 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
17,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
80 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
239.0
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
320.0 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