NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 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 GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (2475MHz vs 2250MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+26%
29.15 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
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
1920 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
40
5888
Shading Units
5120
184
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
160
46
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
100W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
AD104
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
294 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
