NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 35% (2250MHz vs 1665MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 225W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
16.2 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+42%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2022
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
1410 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1665 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
608.3GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
38
SM Count
40
4864
Shading Units
5120
152
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
152
Tensor Cores
160
38
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
133.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
253.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
16.20 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
16.20 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
253.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
225W
TDP
100W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
AD104
GA104-202-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
392 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
