NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon Pro W6600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon Pro W6600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon Pro W6600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation

2.9x more pipelines: 5120 vs 1792
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
Around 30% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 130 Watt
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 12 GB vs 8 GB
Around 29% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Around 21% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 18929 vs 15615
Around 57% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 113995 vs 72837

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	5120 vs 1792
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size	12 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	18929 vs 15615
Geekbench - OpenCL	113995 vs 72837

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro W6600

Around 71% higher core clock speed: 2200 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 74% higher boost clock speed: 2903 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Around 22% higher texture fill rate: 325.1 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
Around 52% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 981 vs 646

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	2200 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate	325.1 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	981 vs 646

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Pro W6600

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

646

981

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

18929

15615

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

113995

72837

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon Pro W6600
PassMark - G2D Mark	646	981
PassMark - G3D Mark	18929	15615
Geekbench - OpenCL	113995	72837
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		270.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4980.223
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		20.735
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		135.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		1054.582
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		15778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		42325
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		20826
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		15778
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		42325

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon Pro W6600
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 23
Place in performance rating	66	65
Launch date		8 Jun 2021
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	2903 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	2200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	5120	1792
Pixel fill rate	106.6 GPixel/s	185.8 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	266.4 GTexel/s	325.1 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	130 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	11060 million
Compute units		28
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		650.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		20.81 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		10.40 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	4x DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP	Single-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		241 mm (9.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		300 Watt
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.1
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	224 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	128 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6