NVIDIA RTX 3000 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 graphics comparison: performance score, cores and clock speeds, VRAM, TGP, cache, and RT and AI units. The better value in each row is highlighted in green.
Summary
NVIDIA RTX 3000 offers a higher boost clock (1695 MHz vs 1545 MHz). NVIDIA RTX 3500 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 5120 vs 4608), more VRAM (12 GB vs 8 GB), a wider memory bus (192 bit vs 128 bit), higher memory bandwidth (432 GB/s vs 256 GB/s), and more L2 cache (48 MB vs 32 MB).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores4608
CUDA cores5120
Boost1695 MHz
Boost1545 MHz
VRAM8 GB
VRAM12 GB
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus192 bit
TGP35–140 W
TGP60–140 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU chipAD106
GPU chipAD104
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node5 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size190 mm²
Die size295 mm²
Transistors22.9 billion
Transistors35.8 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
Release dateMarch 21, 2023
Release dateMarch 21, 2023
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores4608
CUDA cores5120
36× SM
40× SM
Boost clock1695 MHz
Boost clock1545 MHz
Memory
VRAM8 GB
VRAM12 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus192 bit
Memory speed16 Gb/s
Memory speed18 Gb/s
Bandwidth256 GB/s
Bandwidth432 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 140 W
TGP range60 - 140 W
Cache
L2 cache32 MB
L2 cache48 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs144
TMUs160
ROPs48
ROPs64
RT cores36
RT cores40
Tensor cores144
Tensor cores160
SM blocks36
SM blocks40
AI
AI performance319 TOPS
AI performance369 TOPS