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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 8 years and 11 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 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5.733 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +301%
23.04 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Apr 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

-
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

44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
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

65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W
TDP
100W
900 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

Vesuvius
GPU Name
AD104
Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)
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
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