NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh 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 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 56% (1545MHz vs 990MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 144.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q Refresh 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+290%
15.82 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 Max Q Refresh
4.055 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jul 2022
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 30 Mobile
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1110 MHz
Base Clock
622 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
990 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
6GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
96bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
144.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
16
5120
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
64
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
64
40
RT Cores
16
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
98.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.68 GPixel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
63.36 GTexel/s
15.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
4.055 TFLOPS
15.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.055 TFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
63.36 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
75W
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-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA107
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-
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
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
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
