NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 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 RTX 3060 Ti 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2250MHz vs 1665MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

16.2 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +42%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1410 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1665 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

38

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

4864

Shading Units

5120

152

TMUs

160

80

ROPs

64

152

Tensor Cores

160

38

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

133.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

253.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

16.20 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

16.20 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

253.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD104

GA104-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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