AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz 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 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 114% (2250MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +435%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

2048

Shading Units

5120

128

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

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

134.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

4.301 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

1075 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

100W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

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

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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