NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock2250MHz
More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 104.0GB/s)
4224 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages
Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
+1068%
23.04 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 260 OEM
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2023
Release Date
Dec 2013
Quadro Ada-M
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1725 MHz
Base Clock
-
2250 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2250 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
432.0GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
40
SM Count
-
5120
Shading Units
896
160
TMUs
56
64
ROPs
16
160
Tensor Cores
-
40
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
144.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
360.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
23.04 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
23.04 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
360.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
100W
TDP
85W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Bonaire
-
GPU Variant
Bonaire XT
(215-0839039)
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
28 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
8.9
CUDA
-
6.7
Shader Model
6.3
