AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 78% (2250MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +294%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Mar 2023

Arctic Islands

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

5120

144

TMUs

160

32

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

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

AD104

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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