NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB 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 5060 Ti 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (2572MHz vs 2250MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB
+2%
23.7 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2025
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 50
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2407 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2572 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
40
4608
Shading Units
5120
144
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
144
Tensor Cores
160
36
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
123.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
370.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
23.70 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
23.70 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
370.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB206
GPU Name
AD104
GB206-300-A1
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
