NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 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 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 36% (1545MHz vs 1140MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +238%

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

4.669 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Sep 2015

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

2048

160

TMUs

128

64

ROPs

64

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

98.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

247.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

15.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

247.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GM204

-

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.9

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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