GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM 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 7 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 87% (2250MHz vs 1201MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
2460
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+836%
23040
Graphics Card
Nov 2015
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 900
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1176 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1201 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
40
1024
Shading Units
5120
64
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
38.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
76.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
2.460 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
76.86 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
AD104
GTX 960 OEM
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
228 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
5.2
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
