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AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 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 9 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 125% (2250MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7990
4.096 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +462%
23.04 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Apr 2013
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

950 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1000 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

32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W
TDP
100W
750 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Malta
GPU Name
AD104
Malta XT (215-0849026)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
365 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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