NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M390 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 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
4096 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+706%
15.82 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 M390 Mac Edition
1.962 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
May 2015
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
-
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
-
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
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
30.66 GPixel/s
247.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.31 GTexel/s
15.82 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
15.82 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.962 TFLOPS
247.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.6 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
