NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 1792MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 OEM 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 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1792GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 112.9GB/s)
4928 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+5465%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 260 OEM
0.414 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Dec 2009
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1008 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1792MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
448bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
112.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
24
5120
Shading Units
192
160
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
28
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.50 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.15 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
414.7 GFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
51.84 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GT200
-
GPU Variant
G200-101-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
65 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
6.7
Shader Model
4.0
