RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce Go 6800

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV41AD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date8 November 2004 (19 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores175120
Core clock speed300 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed300 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors190 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate3.600247.2
Floating-point processing powerno data15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs864
TMUs12160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-IIIPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount256 MB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed550 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth35.2 GB/s432.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model3.06.8
OpenGL2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)4.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 November 2004 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 100 Watt

Go 6800 has 122.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce Go 6800 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce Go 6800 is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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