AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 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 9060 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 44% (3230MHz vs 2250MHz)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9060 XT
+14%
26.46 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2025
Release Date
Mar 2023
Navi IV
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2220 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
3230 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
322.3GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
48
SM Count
40
2048
Shading Units
5120
128
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
192
Tensor Cores
160
32
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
32 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
206.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
413.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
52.92 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
26.46 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
826.9 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 44
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 44 XT
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
4 nm
Process Size
5 nm
Unknown
Transistors
35.8 billion
153 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
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
