RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro K5000 Mac Edition

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
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGK104AD104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date7 August 2012 (12 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,249 no data

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 cores15365120
Core clock speed706 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors3,540 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)122 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate90.37247.2
Floating-point processing power2.169 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs128160
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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1350 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth172.8 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 Connectors2x DVI, 2x 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 7 August 2012 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 122 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 10 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 22% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K5000 Mac Edition and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K5000 Mac Edition is a workstation card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro K5000 Mac Edition
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