RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro FX 470

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameC79AD104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date12 September 2007 (17 years 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 cores165120
Core clock speed580 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors314 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)38 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate4.640247.2
Floating-point processing power0.0448 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs464
TMUs8160
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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
WidthIGPno 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data432.0 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 Connectors2x DVIPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 September 2007 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 65 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 38 Watt 100 Watt

FX 470 has 163.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 470 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 470 is a workstation card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 470
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