NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6900 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 2 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 6900 XT
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Oct 2020
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Navi II
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1825 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
80
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
5120
160
TMUs
320
64
ROPs
128
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
80
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
128 MB
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
288.0 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
720.0 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
46.08 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1440 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Navi 21
-
GPU Variant
Navi 21 XTX
(215-121000167)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
7 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
26.8 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
520 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.5
