AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 280 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 late

Boost Clock has increased by 141% (2250MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +588%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

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

827 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

5120

112

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

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

AD104

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

Board Design

200W

TDP

100W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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