NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs Intel Arc Pro A40
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 6GB VRAM Arc Pro A40 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 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1700MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
Intel Arc Pro A40 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+561%
23.04 TFLOPS
Arc Pro A40
3.482 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Aug 2022
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Alchemist
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1700 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
96bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
1024
160
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
8
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
54.40 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
108.8 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.963 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.482 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
870.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
DG2-128
-
GPU Variant
ACM-G11
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
6 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
157 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
