AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 9070 XT 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 9070 XT 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 32% (2970MHz vs 2250MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (644.6GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 304W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 9070 XT
+111%
48.66 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Mar 2023
Navi IV
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1660 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
2970 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
2518 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
644.6GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
64
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
4096
Shading Units
5120
256
TMUs
160
128
ROPs
64
128
Tensor Cores
160
64
RT Cores
40
128 KB per Array
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
8 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
64 MB
L3 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
380.2 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
760.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
97.32 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
48.66 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
1.521 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
304W
TDP
100W
700 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Navi 48
GPU Name
AD104
Navi 48 XT
(215-176600315)
GPU Variant
-
RDNA 4.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
5 nm
53.9 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
357 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
