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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +461%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 285X
4.104 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Mar 2023
Release Date
Unknown
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
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz

Memory

12GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
384bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
32
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
2048
160
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
32
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

100W
TDP
200W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

AD104
GPU Name
Tonga
-
GPU Variant
Tonga XT (215-0851313)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
5 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
366 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
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