RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking27not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency40.98no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD104
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74245120
Core clock speed1290 MHz1725 MHz
Boost clock speed1665 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology4 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate386.3360.0
Floating-point processing power24.72 TFLOPS23.04 TFLOPS
ROPs8064
TMUs232160
Tensor Cores232160
Ray Tracing Cores5840

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno dataIGP
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/s432.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device DependentNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 January 2023 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 4 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 4080 Mobile has a 25% more advanced lithography process.

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 months, and 10% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile and RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile is a notebook card while RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile
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