AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 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 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

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

3520 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +747%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

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

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

1600

Shading Units

5120

80

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

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

AD104

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

334 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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