NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2250MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3090
+54%
35.58 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2020
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1395 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1219 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
936.2GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
82
5120
Shading Units
10496
160
TMUs
328
64
ROPs
112
160
Tensor Cores
328
40
RT Cores
82
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
189.8 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
556.0 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
35.58 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
35.58 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
350W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA102
-
GPU Variant
GA102-300-A1
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
