RTX 4500 Ada Generation vs Tegra 3 GPU
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 27 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 24.34 |
| Architecture | VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013) | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) |
| GPU code name | Tegra 3 | AD103 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 9 November 2011 (14 years ago) | 9 August 2023 (2 years ago) |
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 cores | no data | 7680 |
| Core clock speed | 416 MHz | 2070 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 520 MHz | 2580 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 10 million | 45,900 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | 210 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 4.160 | 619.2 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 39.63 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 8 | 80 |
| TMUs | 8 | 240 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 240 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 60 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 7.5 MB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 48 MB |
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).
| Interface | IGP | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Length | no data | 245 mm |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | None |
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 type | System Shared | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | System Shared | 24 GB |
| Memory bus width | System Shared | 192 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | System Shared | 2250 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 432.0 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | 4x DisplayPort 1.4a |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | N/A | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | no data | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | ES 2.0 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | N/A | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 9 November 2011 | 9 August 2023 |
| Chip lithography | 40 nm | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 20 Watt | 210 Watt |
Tegra 3 GPU has 950% lower power consumption.
RTX 4500 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.
We couldn't decide between Tegra 3 GPU and RTX 4500 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Tegra 3 GPU is a notebook graphics card while RTX 4500 Ada Generation is a workstation one.
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