AMD Radeon R9 Nano vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 Nano 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
AMD Radeon R9 Nano 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 Nano
8.192 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+181%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2023
Pirate 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
500 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
192bit
512.0GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
4096
Shading Units
5120
256
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
8.192 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 1.4a
3x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Fiji
GPU Name
AD104
Fiji XT CA
(215-0862120)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
8.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
596 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
