NVIDIA A40 PCIe vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe 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
NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages
More VRAM (48GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
5632 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (2250MHz vs 1740MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
A40 PCIe
+62%
37.42 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2020
Release Date
Mar 2023
Tesla
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1305 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1740 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1812 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
48GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
695.8GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
84
SM Count
40
10752
Shading Units
5120
336
TMUs
160
112
ROPs
64
336
Tensor Cores
160
84
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
194.9 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
584.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
37.42 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
37.42 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
584.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
300W
TDP
100W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
8-pin EPS
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
AD104
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
628 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
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
