NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 4080 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (2505MHz vs 2250MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (100W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4080 +111%

48.74 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

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

2205 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

2505 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

716.8GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

76

SM Count

40

9728

Shading Units

5120

304

TMUs

160

112

ROPs

64

304

Tensor Cores

160

76

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

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Theoretical Performance

280.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

761.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

48.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

48.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

761.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

AD104

AD103-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

379 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

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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