NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 RTX 5060 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1545MHz vs 1455MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)
1792 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile
9.684 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+63%
15.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 50 Mobile
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1455 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
26
SM Count
40
3328
Shading Units
5120
104
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
104
Tensor Cores
160
26
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
69.84 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
151.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
9.684 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
9.684 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
151.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
45W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
AD104
GB206
GPU Variant
-
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
21.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
181 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
12.0
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
