NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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
Lower TDP (100W vs 360W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (2617MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (960.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5080
+144%
56.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jan 2025
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 50
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
2295 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2617 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1875 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
960.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
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
64 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
293.1 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
879.3 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
56.28 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
56.28 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
879.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
360W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GB203
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GPU Variant
GB203-400-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
45.6 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
378 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
1.4
8.9
CUDA
10.1
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
