NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 48GB VRAM A40 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 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (2250MHz vs 1740MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
A40 PCIe
+62%
37.42 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 2020
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Tesla
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1305 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1740 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1812 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
48GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
695.8GB/s
Render Config
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40
SM Count
84
5120
Shading Units
10752
160
TMUs
336
64
ROPs
112
160
Tensor Cores
336
40
RT Cores
84
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
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Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
194.9 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
584.6 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
37.42 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
37.42 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
584.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA102
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Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
628 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
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
