GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation - video card comparison

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Architecture

Ampere (2020−2022)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

Ampere GA102

AD104

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

January 2022

March 2023

Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 12-pin

Boost clock speed

1260 MHz

1545 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

8 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

28,300 million

35,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

8960

5120

Power consumption (TDP)

350 Watt

100 Watt

Texture fill rate

478.8

247.2

Memory type

GDDR6X

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

12 GB

Memory bus width

384 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1710 MHz

18 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

912.4 GB/s

432.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

8.9

OpenCL

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.6

6.7

Vulkan

1.3