Quadro FX 3500 and RTX A3000 Mobile - video card comparison

Quadro FX 3500

RTX A3000 Mobile

Architecture

Curie (2003−2013)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G71

GA104

Market segment

Workstation

Laptop

Release date

May 2006

April 2021

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1560 MHz

Core clock speed

450 MHz

1080 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

90 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

278 million

17,400 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

4096

Power consumption (TDP)

80 Watt

130 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

Texture fill rate

9.000

237.6

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

12 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

192 Bit

Memory clock speed

1320 MHz

14000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

42.24 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

No outputs

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

8.6

OpenCL

N/A

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

3.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2