NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 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
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (2572MHz vs 2250MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
+2%
23.7 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Apr 2025
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
2407 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2572 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
36
5120
Shading Units
4608
160
TMUs
144
64
ROPs
48
160
Tensor Cores
144
40
RT Cores
36
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
32 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
123.5 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
370.4 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.70 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.70 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
370.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
180W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GB206
-
GPU Variant
GB206-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
21.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
181 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
1.4
8.9
CUDA
12.0
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
