NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 4090 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2520MHz vs 2250MHz)

More VRAM (24GB vs 12GB)

11264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0TB/s vs 1.01TB/s)

Lower TDP (100W vs 450W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4090 +258%

82.58 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

23.04 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2022

Release Date

Mar 2023

GeForce 40

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

2235 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

2520 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1313 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

1.01TB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

128

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

16384

Shading Units

5120

512

TMUs

160

176

ROPs

64

512

Tensor Cores

160

128

RT Cores

40

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

72 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

443.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

1290 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

82.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

82.58 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

1290 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD102

GPU Name

AD104

AD102-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

5 nm

76.3 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

609 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

450W

TDP

100W

850 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 16-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

8.9

CUDA

8.9

6.7

Shader Model

6.7

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