NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

4928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +4730%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 200

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

40

192

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

160

28

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

224 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

AD104

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

CUDA

8.9

4.0

Shader Model

6.7

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