GeForce 8500 GT vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 8500 GT and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 8500 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 100W)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
5104 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 8500 GT
29
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+79348%
23040
Graphics Card
Apr 2007
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 8
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
40
16
Shading Units
5120
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
1.836 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
3.672 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
29.38 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G86
GPU Name
AD104
G86-300-A2
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.21 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
127 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
8.9
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
