ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

4320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870

1.2 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +1820%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Mar 2023

Radeon R700

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

5120

40

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

AD104

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

5 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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