NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R7 M260
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M260 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 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1545MHz vs 980MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
4736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+2003%
15.82 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 M260
0.752 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jun 2014
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Gem System
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1110 MHz
Base Clock
940 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
980 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
384
160
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
8
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
98.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.840 GPixel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
23.52 GTexel/s
15.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
752.6 GFLOPS
15.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
752.6 GFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
47.04 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
Unknown
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Topaz
-
GPU Variant
Topaz XT
(216-0858020)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
1.55 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
125 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2.170
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.5
