AMD Radeon VII vs NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon VII 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 VII 's Advantages
More VRAM (16GB vs 12GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1020GB/s vs 432.0GB/s)
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 29% (2250MHz vs 1750MHz)
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (100W vs 295W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon VII
13.44 TFLOPS
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+71%
23.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2019
Release Date
Mar 2023
Vega II
Generation
Quadro Ada-M
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1400 MHz
Base Clock
1725 MHz
1750 MHz
Boost Clock
2250 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
2250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
12GB
HBM2
Memory Type
GDDR6
4096bit
Memory Bus
192bit
1020GB/s
Bandwidth
432.0GB/s
Render Config
60
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
40
3840
Shading Units
5120
240
TMUs
160
64
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
160
-
RT Cores
40
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
4 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
112.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
144.0 GPixel/s
420.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
360.0 GTexel/s
26.88 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
23.04 TFLOPS
13.44 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
23.04 TFLOPS
3.360 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
360.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
295W
TDP
100W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Vega 20
GPU Name
AD104
Vega 20 XT
GPU Variant
-
GCN 5.1
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
5 nm
13.23 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
331 mm²
Die Size
294 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.9
6.7
Shader Model
6.7
