NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

15.82 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile +19%

18.98 TFLOPS

Blender

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +29%

4930

GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

3812

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Jan 2021

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

GeForce 30 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

48

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

6144

160

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

160

Tensor Cores

192

40

RT Cores

48

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

48 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

98.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

148.3 GPixel/s

247.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

296.6 GTexel/s

15.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

18.98 TFLOPS

15.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

18.98 TFLOPS

247.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

296.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

GA104

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GPU Variant

GA104-775-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

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

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

8.6

6.7

Shader Model

6.6

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