AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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
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 R9 280X2
4.096 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+462%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
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
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
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
AD104
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
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
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
