NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 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 GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
2176 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
10.07 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+128%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 20
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
46
SM Count
40
2944
Shading Units
5120
184
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
368
Tensor Cores
160
46
RT Cores
40
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
100W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
AD104
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
-
Turing
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
545 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
7.5
CUDA
8.9
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
