NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 8 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 91% (2250MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+487%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2014
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1050 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
1664
160
TMUs
104
64
ROPs
56
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
148W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
5.2
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
