NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (2250MHz vs 1785MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.1GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660

5.027 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +358%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 16

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

5120

88

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

AD104

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

5 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

100W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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