GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 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 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1708MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)
3968 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
3935
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+485%
23040
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 10
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
9
SM Count
40
1152
Shading Units
5120
72
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
100W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
AD104
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.9
6.4
Shader Model
6.7
