NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

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NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM RTX 4500 Ada Generation and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 39% (2580MHz vs 1852MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (185W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 4500 Ada Generation +178%

39.63 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

14.22 TFLOPS

RTX 4500 Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

Graphics Card

Aug 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Quadro Ada

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2070 MHz

Base Clock

1627 MHz

2580 MHz

Boost Clock

1852 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

60

SM Count

30

-

Compute Units

-

7680

Shading Units

3840

240

TMUs

120

80

ROPs

48

240

Tensor Cores

120

60

RT Cores

30

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

206.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.90 GPixel/s

619.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.2 GTexel/s

39.63 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.22 TFLOPS

39.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.22 TFLOPS

619.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

222.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD103

GPU Name

GA106

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GPU Variant

GA106-400-A1

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

5 nm

Process Size

8 nm

45.9 billion

Transistors

12 billion

379 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

185W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

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

6.7

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