NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2023
Sep 2014
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1110 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
256bit
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
40
—
Shading Units
5120
1664
TMUs
160
104
ROPs
64
56
Tensor Cores
160
—
RT Cores
40
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
48 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
AD104
GM204
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
5 nm
28 nm
Transistors
35.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
294 mm²
398 mm²
GPU Variant
—
GM204-200-A1
Board Design
TDP
100W
148W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
1.3
CUDA
8.9
5.2
Shader Model
6.7
6.4
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.