NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 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 GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q 's Advantages

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1545MHz vs 1245MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

15.3 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +3%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Max Q

VS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1245 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

48

SM Count

40

6144

Shading Units

5120

192

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

192

Tensor Cores

160

48

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

119.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

239.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

15.30 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

15.30 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

239.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD104

GA104-775-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

5 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

392 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

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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