RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVS 510

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking915not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.07no data
Power efficiency3.69no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK107AD104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date23 October 2012 (12 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 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 cores1925120
Core clock speed797 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate12.75247.2
Floating-point processing power0.306 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs16160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length160 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed891 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth28.51 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 Connectors4x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA3.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 October 2012 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 100 Watt

NVS 510 has 185.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 10 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between NVS 510 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that NVS 510 is a workstation card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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