NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon RX 9070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 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
1536 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 220W)
AMD Radeon RX 9070 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (2520MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9070
+56%
36.13 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Mar 2025
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1330 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
2520 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
644.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
56
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
3584
160
TMUs
224
64
ROPs
128
160
Tensor Cores
112
40
RT Cores
56
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB per Array
48 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
L3 Cache
64 MB
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
322.6 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
564.5 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
72.25 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
36.13 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1129 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
220W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Navi 48
-
GPU Variant
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600331)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
4 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
53.9 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
357 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.8
