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Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
5728
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +302%
23040

Graphics Card

Apr 2017
Release Date
Mar 2023
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s

Render Config

36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
2304
Shading Units
5120
144
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB

Theoretical Performance

39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere
GPU Name
AD104
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
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