Radeon RX 6800 vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800 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
Radeon RX 6800 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (2250MHz vs 2105MHz)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 6800
16170
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+42%
23040
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2023
Navi II
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1700 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2105 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
60
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
3840
Shading Units
5120
240
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
60
RT Cores
40
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
128 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
202.1 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
505.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
32.33 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
16.17 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
1010 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 21
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 21 XL
(215-121000187)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
5 nm
26.8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
520 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.5
Shader Model
6.7