AMD Radeon RX 550X vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon RX 550X NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 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

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 90% (2250MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

4608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation +1802%

23.04 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

VS

RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Dec 2018

Release Date

Mar 2023

Polaris

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

1725 MHz

1183 MHz

Boost Clock

2250 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

5120

32

TMUs

160

16

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

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

144.0 GPixel/s

37.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

360.0 GTexel/s

1211 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

23.04 TFLOPS

1211 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.04 TFLOPS

75.71 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

360.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

AD104

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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