GeForce 6800 XT vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 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
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation Advantages
Released 17 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2005
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 6 AGP
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
600 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
40
-
Shading Units
5120
12
TMUs
160
8
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
3.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
5.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV42
GPU Name
AD104
6800 XT
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.202 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
222 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
