RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4090 D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation17.27no data
Power efficiency14.79no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD102AD104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date28 December 2023 (less than a year ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,599 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores145925120
Core clock speed2280 MHz1725 MHz
Boost clock speed2520 MHz2250 MHz
Number of transistors76,300 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)425 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate1,149360.0
Floating-point processing power73.54 TFLOPS23.04 TFLOPS
ROPs17664
TMUs456160
Tensor Cores456160
Ray Tracing Cores11440

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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length304 mmno data
Width3-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pinNone

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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount24 GB12 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,008 GB/s432.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
HDMI+-

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 28 December 2023 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 24 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 425 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 4090 D has an age advantage of 9 months, and a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation, on the other hand, has 325% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4090 D and RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4090 D is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation is a workstation one.


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