RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon Pro W6800

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking52not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation23.18no data
Power efficiency14.21no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 21AD104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date8 June 2021 (3 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores38405120
Core clock speed2075 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed2320 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors26,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate556.8247.2
Floating-point processing power17.82 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs9664
TMUs240160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Cores6040

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth512.0 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 June 2021 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 100 Watt

Pro W6800 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 150% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W6800 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Pro W6800 is a workstation card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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