NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 58% (1545MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation +692%

15.82 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

1.997 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2023

Release Date

Nov 2014

Quadro Ada-M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1110 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

1365 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

432.0GB/s

Bandwidth

174.7GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

40

SM Count

-

5120

Shading Units

1024

160

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

160

Tensor Cores

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

98.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

247.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

62.40 GTexel/s

15.82 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.82 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.997 TFLOPS

247.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

124.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD104

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

5 nm

Process Size

28 nm

35.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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