NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 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 3090 's Advantages
More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (936.2GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
5376 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (2250MHz vs 1695MHz)
Lower TDP (100W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3090
+54%
35.58 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
1395 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
40
10496
Shading Units
5120
328
TMUs
160
112
ROPs
64
328
Tensor Cores
160
82
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
556.0 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
GA102-300-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
