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

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation

  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 1290 MHz vs 810 MHz
  • Around 32% higher boost clock speed: 1665 MHz vs 1260 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 5 nm vs 8 nm
  • Around 15% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 115 Watt
  • Around 13% higher memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Core clock speed 1290 MHz vs 810 MHz
Boost clock speed 1665 MHz vs 1260 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm vs 8 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 115 Watt
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

  • Around 10% higher texture fill rate: 292.3 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
  • Around 45% higher pipelines: 7424 vs 5120
  • Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 12 GB
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 845 vs 661
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 20014 vs 19782
  • Around 1% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 118050 vs 116364
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 292.3 GTexel/s vs 266.4 GTexel/s
Pipelines 7424 vs 5120
Maximum memory size 16 GB vs 12 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 845 vs 661
PassMark - G3D Mark 20014 vs 19782
Geekbench - OpenCL 118050 vs 116364

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
661
845
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
19782
20014
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
116364
118050
Name NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile
PassMark - G2D Mark 661 845
PassMark - G3D Mark 19782 20014
Geekbench - OpenCL 116364 118050
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 12745

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile

Essentials

Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
Code name AD104 GA103
Place in performance rating 58 55
Launch date 25 Jan 2022

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1665 MHz 1260 MHz
Core clock speed 1290 MHz 810 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 5 nm 8 nm
Pipelines 5120 7424
Pixel fill rate 106.6 GPixel/s 121.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 266.4 GTexel/s 292.3 GTexel/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 115 Watt
Transistor count 35800 million
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 292.3 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 18.71 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 18.71 TFLOPS

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent Portable Device Dependent

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Shader Model 6.7 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Memory bandwidth 432.0 GB/s 512.0 GB/s
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Memory clock speed 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective 2000 MHz, 16 Gbps effective
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR6