AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon R9 M385

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 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

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 54% (1545MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

4224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385

1.792 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +782%

15.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

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RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Mar 2023

Gem System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1110 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

40

896

Shading Units

5120

56

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

98.88 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

247.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

15.82 TFLOPS

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.82 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

247.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

AD104

Strato XT

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.7

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