NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT 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 10 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 131% (2250MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 192.0GB/s)
3584 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+669%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2.995 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Nov 2012
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
1536
160
TMUs
96
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
5.1
