NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 85% (2250MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +362%

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 900

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

TMUs

160

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

AD104

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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