NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 113% (2250MHz vs 1058MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

3584 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +608%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 600

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

1536

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

AD104

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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