AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M 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

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +1320%

15.82 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2023

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1110 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

960

Shading Units

5120

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD104

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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