GeForce RTX 4090 vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 RTX 4090 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2520MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
11264 additional rendering cores
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Lower TDP (100W vs 450W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4090
+258%
82580
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23040
Graphics Card
Sep 2022
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 40
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2235 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2520 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1313 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1.01TB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
128
SM Count
40
16384
Shading Units
5120
512
TMUs
160
176
ROPs
64
512
Tensor Cores
160
128
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
72 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
443.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
1290 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
82.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
82.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
1290 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
450W
TDP
100W
850 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD102
GPU Name
AD104
AD102-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
76.3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
609 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
