NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 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 15 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 32.26GB/s)
5088 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+24674%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce 8600 GTS Mac Edition
0.093 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2007
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
32.26GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
4
5120
Shading Units
32
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
8
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
5.400 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.80 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
92.80 GFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
G84
-
GPU Variant
G84-400-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
80 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
1.1
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
