NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM RTX A5000 Max Q and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1545MHz vs 1350MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 384.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX A5000 Max Q
+4%
16.59 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
15.82 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2021
Release Date
Mar 2023
Quadro Ampere-M
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
720 MHz
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1350 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
384.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
40
6144
Shading Units
5120
192
TMUs
160
96
ROPs
64
192
Tensor Cores
160
48
RT Cores
40
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
129.6 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
259.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
16.59 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
16.59 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
259.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
80W
TDP
100W
-
-
-
Portable Device Dependent
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GA104
GPU Name
AD104
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-
-
Ampere
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
5 nm
17.4 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
392 mm²
Die Size
294 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
8.6
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
