AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1545MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +692%

15.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Mar 2023

Crystal System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

975 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1365 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

174.7GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

1024

Shading Units

5120

64

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

62.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

1.997 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

124.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

80W

TDP

100W

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No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

AD104

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 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

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CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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