NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and ATI Radeon 9600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 17 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 80% higher core clock speed: 900 MHz vs 500 MHz
85500x more texture fill rate: 171.0 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 130 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 600 MHz

Launch date	12 Jan 2021 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	900 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

3.6x lower typical power consumption: 22 Watt vs 80 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt vs 80 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	20611
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	7929
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	7929
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	8917
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	8917
PassMark - G3D Mark		35
PassMark - G2D Mark		147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	Rage 9
Code name	GA106	RV360
Launch date	12 Jan 2021	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	117	1149
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1425 MHz
Core clock speed	900 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	8 nm	130 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	171.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	10.94 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840
Pixel fill rate	68.40 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	171.0 GTexel/s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	80 Watt	22 Watt
Transistor count	12000 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	PCIe 4.0 x16
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR
Technologies
GPU Boost
VR Ready