NVIDIA RTX 3500 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 3500 offers more compute units (CUDA cores: 5120 vs 2048), more VRAM (12 GB vs 4 GB), a wider memory bus (192 bit vs 64 bit), higher memory bandwidth (432 GB/s vs 128 GB/s), and more L2 cache (48 MB vs 12 MB). NVIDIA RTX 500 offers a higher boost clock (2025 MHz vs 1545 MHz).
Performance score
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Key specs
CUDA cores5120
CUDA cores2048
Boost1545 MHz
Boost2025 MHz
VRAM12 GB
VRAM4 GB
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus64 bit
TGP60–140 W
TGP35–60 W
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
General
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
SeriesRTX Ada Mobile
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU architectureAda Lovelace
GPU chipAD104
GPU chipAD107
FoundryTSMC
FoundryTSMC
Process node5 nm
Process node5 nm
Die size295 mm²
Die size159 mm²
Transistors35.8 billion
Transistors18.9 billion
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8
Release dateMarch 21, 2023
Release dateFebruary 26, 2024
Cores and clocks
CUDA cores5120
CUDA cores2048
40× SM
16× SM
Boost clock1545 MHz
Boost clock2025 MHz
Memory
VRAM12 GB
VRAM4 GB
MemoryGDDR6
MemoryGDDR6
Memory bus192 bit
Memory bus64 bit
Memory speed18 Gb/s
Memory speed16 Gb/s
Bandwidth432 GB/s
Bandwidth128 GB/s
TGP
TGP range60 - 140 W
TGP range35 - 60 W
Cache
L2 cache48 MB
L2 cache12 MB
L1 cache128 KB
L1 cache128 KB
Units
TMUs160
TMUs64
ROPs64
ROPs32
RT cores40
RT cores16
Tensor cores160
Tensor cores64
SM blocks40
SM blocks16
AI
AI performance369 TOPS
AI performance154 TOPS