AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 Clock2250MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +309%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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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

-

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

-

SM Count

40

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

5120

176

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

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

AD104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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

Board Design

290W

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 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

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