NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 11 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
4160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 254W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1400%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 X2
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2011
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Northern Islands
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
1050 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
960
160
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
254W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Barts
-
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
255 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.0
