NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1545MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +508%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

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RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 800M

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

160

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

AD104

N15E-GT-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

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

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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