RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Quadro K620

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking590not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.37no data
Power efficiency8.90no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGM107AD104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date22 July 2014 (10 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$189.89 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3845120
Core clock speed1058 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1124 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors1,870 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)41 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate26.98247.2
Floating-point processing power0.8632 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs24160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length160 mmno data
Width1" (2.5 cm)no data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type128 BitGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthUp to 29 GB/s432.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Number of simultaneous displays4no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro+no data
Mosaic+no data
nView Desktop Management+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.54.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.3
CUDA5.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 July 2014 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 41 Watt 100 Watt

Quadro K620 has 143.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro K620 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro K620 is a workstation card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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