AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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 2 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +703%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Mar 2023

Southern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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