GeForce GTX 480 vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation Advantages
Released 13 years late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 177.4GB/s)
4640 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 480
1345
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1613%
23040
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Mar 2023
GeForce 400
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
924 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
177.4GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
15
SM Count
40
480
Shading Units
5120
60
TMUs
160
48
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
21.03 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
42.06 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
1345 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
168.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
AD104
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
2.0
CUDA
8.9
5.1
Shader Model
6.7
