RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon HD 6330M

Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRobsonAD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date26 November 2010 (14 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 cores805120
Core clock speed500 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors292 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate4.000247.2
Floating-point processing power0.08 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8160
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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.8
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 November 2010 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 100 Watt

HD 6330M has 1328.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6330M and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6330M is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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