Radeon RX 6800 XT vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 XT and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 6800 XT 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800 XT
20740
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+11%
23040
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2023
Navi II
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1825 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
72
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
4608
Shading Units
5120
288
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
72
RT Cores
40
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
288.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
648.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
41.47 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
20.74 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
1296 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
100W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 21 XT
(215-121000177)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
5 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.5
Shader Model
6.7