NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 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 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (2250MHz vs 1600MHz)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 300W)
AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+75%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition
13.11 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Jun 2017
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Radeon Pro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
1382 MHz
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
1600 MHz
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
945 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
HBM2
192bit
Memory Bus
2048bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
483.8GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
64
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
4096
160
TMUs
256
64
ROPs
64
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
102.4 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
409.6 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
26.21 TFLOPS
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
13.11 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
819.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
300W
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Vega 10
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GPU Variant
Vega 10 XTX AIR
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
5 nm
Process Size
14 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
12.5 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
495 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.4
