NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 142% (2250MHz vs 930MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +2320%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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Radeon R9 255 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Dec 2013

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1725 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

2250 MHz

Boost Clock

930 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

512

160

TMUs

32

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

14.88 GPixel/s

360.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

23.04 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.04 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

360.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

123 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

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