AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4352 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260

1.536 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +1400%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Mar 2023

Volcanic 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

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

768

Shading Units

5120

48

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

100W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

AD104

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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