NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 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
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2250MHz vs 2000MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
2048 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+87%
23.04 TFLOPS
Arc A580
12.29 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 2023
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1700 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
3072
160
TMUs
192
64
ROPs
96
160
Tensor Cores
384
40
RT Cores
24
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
DG2-512
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
6 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
406 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
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
