NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD FirePro S9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 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 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
2304 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 275W)
AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+339%
23.04 TFLOPS
FirePro S9170
5.238 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jul 2015
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
32GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
512bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
2816
160
TMUs
176
64
ROPs
64
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
275W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Hawaii
-
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT GL
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
