NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 420M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)
5024 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+8139%
15.82 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 420M
0.192 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+12641%
13251
GeForce GT 420M
104
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2010
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 400M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1110 MHz
Base Clock
-
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
DDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
2
5120
Shading Units
96
160
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
4
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
98.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.000 GTexel/s
15.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
16.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
23W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GF108
-
GPU Variant
N11P-GE-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
40 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
2.1
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
