AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2250MHz vs 1600MHz)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (100W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

13.11 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +75%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Mar 2023

Radeon Pro

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

945 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

12GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR6

2048bit

Memory Bus

192bit

483.8GB/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)

4 MB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

100W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

AD104

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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