Radeon 880M vs RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 316 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 92.19 |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | RDNA 3.5 (2024−2025) |
| GPU code name | AD104 | Strix Point |
| Market segment | Workstation | Laptop |
| Release date | 21 March 2023 (2 years ago) | 15 July 2024 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 5120 | 768 |
| Core clock speed | 1725 MHz | 400 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 2250 MHz | 2900 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 35,800 million | 34,000 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | 15 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 360.0 | 139.2 |
| Floating-point processing power | 23.04 TFLOPS | 4.454 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | 64 | 16 |
| TMUs | 160 | 48 |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | no data |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 40 | 12 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Laptop size | no data | medium sized |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Width | IGP | no data |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | System Shared |
| Maximum RAM amount | 12 GB | System Shared |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | System Shared |
| Memory clock speed | 2250 MHz | System Shared |
| Memory bandwidth | 432.0 GB/s | no data |
| Shared memory | - | + |
| Resizable BAR | + | - |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | No outputs | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | - |
| DLSS | + | - |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 21 March 2023 | 15 July 2024 |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 100 Watt | 15 Watt |
Radeon 880M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 566.7% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation and Radeon 880M. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that RTX 3500 Embedded Ada Generation is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 880M is a notebook one.
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