NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation and AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT 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 - 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation

AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation

Around 11% higher pipelines: 5120 vs 4608
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 7 nm
3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 300 Watt
Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Pipelines	5120 vs 4608
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm vs 7 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt vs 300 Watt
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

Around 41% higher core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 2250 MHz vs 1665 MHz
2.4x more texture fill rate: 648.0 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
Around 58% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1018 vs 643
Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25034 vs 18947
Around 33% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 151497 vs 113687

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 1290 MHz
Boost clock speed	2250 MHz vs 1665 MHz
Texture fill rate	648.0 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1018 vs 643
PassMark - G3D Mark	25034 vs 18947
Geekbench - OpenCL	151497 vs 113687

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation
GPU 2: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

1018

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

18947

25034

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

113687

151497

Name	NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	643	1018
PassMark - G3D Mark	18947	25034
Geekbench - OpenCL	113687	151497
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		578.52
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		52.561
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		291.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		2700.97
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3374
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		16849
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3720
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3374
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		19444

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation	AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	RDNA 2.0
Code name	AD104	Navi 21
Place in performance rating	67	69
Launch date		28 Oct 2020
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1665 MHz	2250 MHz
Core clock speed	1290 MHz	1825 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	5120	4608
Pixel fill rate	106.6 GPixel/s	288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	266.4 GTexel/s	648.0 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	35800 million	26800 million
Compute units		72
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		1296 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		41.47 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		20.74 TFLOPS
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	Portable Device Dependent	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 8-pin
Height		50 mm (2 inches)
Length		267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)		700 Watt
Width		120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12.2
OpenCL	3.0	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
Shader Model	6.7	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	12 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	432.0 GB/s	512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	256 bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR6