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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 14 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
4320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +1820%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1.2 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Mar 2023
Release Date
Aug 2008
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
10
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
800
160
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W
TDP
286W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104
GPU Name
R700
-
GPU Variant
R700 XT (215-0669045)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
55 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
4.1
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