AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500 XT 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
AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 25% (2815MHz vs 2250MHz)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 143.9GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 107W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6500 XT
5.765 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+299%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2023
Navi II
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2310 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2815 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2248 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
192bit
143.9GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
1024
Shading Units
5120
64
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
16
RT Cores
40
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
16 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
90.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
180.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
11.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
5.765 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
360.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
107W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 24
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 24 XT
(215-135000006)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
6 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
107 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
