NVIDIA PG506 242 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA PG506 242

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM PG506 242 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 PG506 242 's Advantages

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 56% (2250MHz vs 1440MHz)

1536 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

PG506 242

10.32 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +123%

23.04 TFLOPS

PG506 242

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Mar 2023

Tesla

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

3072bit

Memory Bus

192bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

56

SM Count

40

3584

Shading Units

5120

224

TMUs

160

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

24 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

AD104

-

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

5 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

8.0

CUDA

8.9

N/A

Shader Model

6.7

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