GeForce 9800S and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

GeForce 9800S

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G94

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

January 2021

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x 12-pin

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

600 MHz

1320 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

192 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

19.2 billion/sec

199.0

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

VGAHDMISingle Link DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF + HDA

-

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