NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 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 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages
Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1545MHz vs 1230MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q
11.34 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+39%
15.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2023
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 40 Mobile
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
735 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1230 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
36
SM Count
40
4608
Shading Units
5120
144
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
144
Tensor Cores
160
36
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
32 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
59.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
177.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
11.34 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
11.34 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
177.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD106
GPU Name
AD104
GN21-X6
GPU Variant
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
22.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
188 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
