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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)
4928 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +4730%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
0.477 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Mar 2023
Release Date
Jul 2008
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
448bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s

Render Config

-
-
-
40
SM Count
24
5120
Shading Units
192
160
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
28
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
36.86 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
476.9 GFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W
TDP
182W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104
GPU Name
GT200B
-
GPU Variant
G200-103-B3
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
55 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
470 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.3
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
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