NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 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 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2250MHz vs 1710MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 10GB)
Lower TDP (100W vs 320W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3080
+29%
29.77 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
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
1440 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
10GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
320bit
Memory Bus
192bit
760.3GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
68
SM Count
40
8704
Shading Units
5120
272
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
272
Tensor Cores
160
68
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
5 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
164.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
465.1 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
29.77 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
29.77 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
465.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
320W
TDP
100W
700 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
GA102-200-KD-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
6.6
Shader Model
6.7
