NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 89% (2250MHz vs 1190MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)
4352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
1.828 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1160%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
40
768
Shading Units
5120
48
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
100W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
AD104
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
228 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
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
