NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
VS
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

856
Place in performance rating
2
7.93
Value for money (0-100)
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Tesla
Architecture
Ampere
G94
Code name
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Desktop
Type
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21 February 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
24 September 2020 (1 year ago)
$179
Launch price (MSRP)
$1,499
$129 (0.7x MSRP)
Price now
$3495 (2.3x MSRP)
0.13
Value for money
3.86
G94
GPU code name
Ampere GA102
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

64
Pipelines
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650 MHz
Core clock speed
1400 MHz
505 million
Transistor count
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65 nm
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
96 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
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20.8 billion/sec
Texture fill rate
556.0
208 gflops
Floating-point performance
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105 °C
Maximum GPU temperature
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64
CUDA cores
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64
Pipelines / CUDA cores
10496
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Boost clock speed
1700 MHz
505 million
Number of transistors
28,300 million
96 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
350 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
9" (22.9 cm)
Length
313 mm
6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
1x 12-pin
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SLI options
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16x PCI-E 2.0
Bus support
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4.376" (11.1 cm)
Height
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Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 can be seen in this section.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR6X
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
24 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
384 Bit
900 MHz
Memory clock speed
19500 MHz
57.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
936.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, the size and number of monitors.

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
+
Multi monitor support
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2048x1536
Maximum VGA resolution
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S/PDIF
Audio input for HDMI
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HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
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CUDA
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
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2.1
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Death Stranding (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
F1 2020 (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Gears Tactics (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Doom Eternal (2020) NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Cheaper ($129 (0.7x MSRP) vs $3495 (2.3x MSRP))

More maximum RAM amount (512 MB vs 24 GB)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

95.47% faster in synthetic tests

Finer manufacturing process technology (8 nm vs 65 nm)

More memory bandwidth (936.2 GB/s vs 57.6 GB/s)

So, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 .

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT versus NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
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