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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1545MHz vs 1150MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 965M
2.355 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +571%
15.82 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 965M
1800
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +636%
13251
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 965M
798
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +723%
6570
Blender
GeForce GTX 965M
133
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +3195%
4383

Graphics Card

Jan 2016
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 900M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

935 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1150 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
80.19GB/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

36.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
73.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
2.355 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
73.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown
TDP
100W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

GM206S
GPU Name
AD104
N16E-GR-A1
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
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