AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 4 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
2560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 275W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290
4.849 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+375%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 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
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
512bit
Memory Bus
192bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
40
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
2560
Shading Units
5120
160
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.61 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
151.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
4.849 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
606.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
275W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
AD104
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
438 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
