NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +1111%

15.82 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Aug 2011

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/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

98.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

247.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

15.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

247.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

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

212 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

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