NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 5080 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2520MHz vs 2250MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (973.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

5632 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 5080 +135%

54.19 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2025

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 50

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 5.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

2400 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR7

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

973.8GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

84

SM Count

40

10752

Shading Units

5120

336

TMUs

160

128

ROPs

64

336

Tensor Cores

160

84

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

322.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

846.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

54.19 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

54.19 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

846.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

100W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 2.1a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GB203

GPU Name

AD104

GB203-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Blackwell 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

0

Process Size

5 nm

Unknown

Transistors

35.8 billion

377 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

10.1

CUDA

8.9

6.8

Shader Model

6.7

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