GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation - video card comparison
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
Architecture
Ampere (2020−2022)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
GN20-E3 GA106
AD104
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2021
March 2023
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1702 MHz
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
817 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
8 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
13,250 million
35,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
3840
5120
Power consumption (TDP)
115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
171.0
247.2
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
12 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
336.0 GB/s
432.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
8.6
8.9
OpenCL
2.0
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.7
Vulkan
1.2
1.3