NVIDIA RTX 3000 vs NVIDIA RTX 500 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 more compute units (CUDA cores: 4608 vs 2048), more VRAM (8 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (128 bit vs 64 bit), higher memory bandwidth (256 GB/s vs 128 GB/s), and more L2 cache (32 MB vs 12 MB). NVIDIA RTX 500 offers a higher boost clock (2025 MHz vs 1695 MHz).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores4608
CUDA cores2048
Boost1695 MHz
Boost2025 MHz
VRAM8 GB
VRAM4 GB
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus64 bit
TGP35–140 W
TGP35–60 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU chipAD106
GPU chipAD107
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node5 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size190 mm²
Die size159 mm²
Transistors22.9 billion
Transistors18.9 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Release dateMarch 21, 2023
Release dateFebruary 26, 2024
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores4608
CUDA cores2048
36× SM
16× SM
Boost clock1695 MHz
Boost clock2025 MHz
Memory
VRAM8 GB
VRAM4 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus128 bit
Memory bus64 bit
Memory speed16 Gb/s
Memory speed16 Gb/s
Bandwidth256 GB/s
Bandwidth128 GB/s
TGP
TGP range35 - 140 W
TGP range35 - 60 W
Cache
L2 cache32 MB
L2 cache12 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs144
TMUs64
ROPs48
ROPs32
RT cores36
RT cores16
Tensor cores144
Tensor cores64
SM blocks36
SM blocks16
AI
AI performance319 TOPS
AI performance154 TOPS