NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 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 3080 12 GB 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1710MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB
+32%
30.64 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2022
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 30
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1260 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
912.4GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
70
SM Count
40
8960
Shading Units
5120
280
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
280
Tensor Cores
160
70
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
478.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
30.64 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
30.64 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
478.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
100W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
AD104
GA102-220-A1
GPU Variant
-
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
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
