ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

0.422 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +3648%

15.82 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

VS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2023

M8x

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1110 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

850 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

320

Shading Units

5120

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

AD104

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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