AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +1400%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Mar 2023

Northern Islands

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

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

960

Shading Units

5120

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

254W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

AD104

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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