NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 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 6 months late
Lower TDP (100W vs 320W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 11% (2505MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (716.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4080
+111%
48.74 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2022
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 40
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
2205 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2505 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6X
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
716.8GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
76
5120
Shading Units
9728
160
TMUs
304
64
ROPs
112
160
Tensor Cores
304
40
RT Cores
76
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
64 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
280.6 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
761.5 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
48.74 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
48.74 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
761.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
320W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
AD103
-
GPU Variant
AD103-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
45.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
379 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
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
