NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 2 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 30% (2250MHz vs 1725MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Lower TDP (100W vs 220W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+13%
23.04 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3070
20.31 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Sep 2020
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1725 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
40
SM Count
46
5120
Shading Units
5888
160
TMUs
184
64
ROPs
96
160
Tensor Cores
184
40
RT Cores
46
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.6 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
317.4 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
20.31 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.31 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
317.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
220W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
GA104
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GPU Variant
GA104-300-A1
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
5 nm
Process Size
8 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
392 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
8.9
CUDA
8.6
6.7
Shader Model
6.6
