NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 23 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
5120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 1999
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
SDR
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
-
160
TMUs
4
64
ROPs
4
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
48 MB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
100W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
220 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
7.0
4.6
OpenGL
1.2
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
-
