GeForce RTX 5070 vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2512MHz vs 2250MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+33%
30870
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23040
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 50
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
48
SM Count
40
6144
Shading Units
5120
192
TMUs
160
80
ROPs
64
192
Tensor Cores
160
48
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
No outputs
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
AD104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
