NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 32GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 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 575W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 7% (2407MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.79TB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
16640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 5090
+354%
104.8 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
2017 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2407 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR7
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
170
5120
Shading Units
21760
160
TMUs
680
64
ROPs
176
160
Tensor Cores
680
40
RT Cores
170
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
96 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
423.6 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1637 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
104.8 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
104.8 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1.637 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
575W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
None
Power Connectors
1x 16-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GB202
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GPU Variant
GB202-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Blackwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
92.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
750 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
12.0
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
