NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2250MHz vs 1695MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 231.9GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+430%
23.04 TFLOPS
A16 PCIe
4.339 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Apr 2021
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
885 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
231.9GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
10
5120
Shading Units
1280
160
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
40
40
RT Cores
10
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.24 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
67.80 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.339 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.339 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA107
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-
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Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
