NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1545MHz vs 1470MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2048 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

9.032 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +75%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4060 Max Q

VS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1470 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

24

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

3072

Shading Units

5120

96

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

96

Tensor Cores

160

24

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

32 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

70.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

141.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

9.032 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

9.032 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

141.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD107

GPU Name

AD104

GN21-X4

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

Unknown

Transistors

35.8 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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