AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 142% (2250MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +2320%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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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

900 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

930 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

512

Shading Units

5120

32

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

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

AD104

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

123 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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