GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X - video card comparison

GeForce 9800 GTX

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G92

GA104

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2008

October 2022

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 12-pin

SLI options

Boost clock speed

1665 MHz

Core clock speed

675 MHz

CUDA cores

128

Floating-point performance

432.1 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

128

4864

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

225 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

43.2 billion/sec

253.1

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

8 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1100 MHz

19 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

70.4 GB/s

608.3 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVDual Link DVI

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Multi monitor support

HDMI

Via Adapter

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

6.7

Vulkan

N/A

1.3