Radeon HD 6870 vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)
4000 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 151W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6870
2016
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1042%
23040
Graphics Card
Oct 2010
Release Date
Mar 2023
Northern Islands
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1725 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
134.4GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
1120
Shading Units
5120
56
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
28.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
50.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
2.016 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
151W
TDP
100W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Barts
GPU Name
AD104
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
5 nm
1.7 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
255 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
5.0
Shader Model
6.7