NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 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 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2250MHz vs 1183MHz)
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)
4608 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1802%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 550X
1.211 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Dec 2018
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1100 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1183 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/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
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
37.86 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
1211 GFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1211 GFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.71 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Lexa
-
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
