NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 96GB VRAM RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q 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
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 2% (2288MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (96GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
18944 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max Q
+377%
110.1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Mar 2025
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Blackwell PRO W
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1590 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2288 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
96GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
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40
SM Count
188
5120
Shading Units
24064
160
TMUs
752
64
ROPs
192
160
Tensor Cores
752
40
RT Cores
188
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
128 MB
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Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
439.3 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1721 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
110.1 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
110.1 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.721 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GB202
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Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
750 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
