Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition vs RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1545MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
3072 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M395X Mac Edition
3723
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
+324%
15820
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
Mar 2023
Crystal System
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1110 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1545 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
2048
Shading Units
5120
128
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
48 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.09 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
98.88 GPixel/s
116.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
247.2 GTexel/s
3.723 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
15.82 TFLOPS
3.723 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
15.82 TFLOPS
232.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
247.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
100W
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Amethyst
GPU Name
AD104
Amethyst XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
5 nm
5 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.3
Shader Model
6.7