GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

GP106

AD104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

July 2016

March 2023

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1708 MHz

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

1506 MHz

Floating-point performance

4,375 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

16 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

4,400 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

136.7

247.2

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

6 GB

12 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

192.2 GB/s

432.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

6.1

8.9

OpenCL

1.2

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3

VR Ready