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).

 

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 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19038 vs 15662
  • Around 55% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 113038 vs 72764
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 19038 vs 15662
Geekbench - OpenCL 113038 vs 72764

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 53% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 989 vs 647
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 989 vs 647

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
647
989
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
19038
15662
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
113038
72764
Name NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation AMD Radeon Pro W6600
PassMark - G2D Mark 647 989
PassMark - G3D Mark 19038 15662
Geekbench - OpenCL 113038 72764
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 67 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