NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 10 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 153% (2250MHz vs 888MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
3968 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 130W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1026%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 660 OEM
2.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Aug 2012
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
823 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
888 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
1152
160
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
24
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
48 MB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.31 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
85.25 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.046 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
85.25 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GK104
-
GPU Variant
GK104-200-KD-A2
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
3.54 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.1
8.9
CUDA
3.0
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
