NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points
7093 points
34% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS
187 FPS
61 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS
91 FPS
30 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS
127 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS
69 FPS
21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2317.27 points
4356.17 points
87% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

89510 points
117037 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

86221 points
105249 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586
68th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
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DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
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OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
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GeForce RTX 3060 vs RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop benchmarks

For gaming, the RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in our tests.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3060.

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