AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 5 months late

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

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +757%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Oct 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

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

1280

Shading Units

5120

80

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

AD104

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 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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