NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB 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
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 160W)
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 39% (3130MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
+11%
25.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jun 2025
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
3130 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
200.3 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
400.6 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
51.28 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
25.64 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
801.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
2x DisplayPort 2.1a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Navi 44
-
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
(215-176400102)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
4 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
29.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
199 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
