NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 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 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 21% (2250MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +62%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 30

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1627 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1852 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

336.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

40

3840

Shading Units

5120

120

TMUs

160

48

ROPs

64

120

Tensor Cores

160

30

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

88.90 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

222.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

14.22 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

14.22 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

222.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

185W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA106

GPU Name

AD104

GA106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

276 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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