NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 540 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 Quadro FX 540 's Advantages
Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 18 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2004
Release Date
Mar 2023
Quadro FX Curie
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
128MB
Memory Size
12GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR6
128bit
Memory Bus
192bit
8.000GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
40
-
Shading Units
5120
8
TMUs
160
4
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
-
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
1.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
25W
TDP
100W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV43
GPU Name
AD104
NV43 GL
GPU Variant
-
Curie
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
110 nm
Process Size
5 nm
0.146 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
154 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
3.0
Shader Model
6.7
