NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 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 GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1670MHz vs 1545MHz)
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
4.275 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+270%
15.82 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
3686
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+259%
13251
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile
1687
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+289%
6570
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 10 Mobile
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1404 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1670 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
6GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
40
1280
Shading Units
5120
80
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
80.16 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
133.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
66.80 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
4.275 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
133.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
AD104
N17E-G1-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
