Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3060 - video card comparison

Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition

GeForce RTX 3060

Architecture

Rage 9 (2003−2008)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

R360

Ampere GA106

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2004

January 2021

Interface

AGP Pro 8x

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1777 MHz

Core clock speed

378 MHz

1320 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

117 million

13,250 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

3584

Power consumption (TDP)

60 Watt

170 Watt

Texture fill rate

3.024

199.0

Memory type

DDR

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

128 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

676 MHz

15000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

21.63 GB/s

360.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

HDMI

DirectX

9.0

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

2.0

OpenGL

2.0

4.6

Shader Model

6.5

Vulkan

N/A

1.2