AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 13 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1187 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 3.1x more boost clock speed: 1757 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 12224.6x more texture fill rate: 168.7 GTexel/s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
  • 64x more pipelines: 1536 vs 24
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 90 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 512 MB
  • Around 46% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1200 MHz
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 vs 1 March 2007
Core clock speed 1187 MHz vs 575 MHz
Boost clock speed 1757 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s vs 13.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 24
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

  • 2.8x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 125 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 125 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Name AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M
Geekbench - OpenCL 42529
PassMark - G3D Mark 306
PassMark - G2D Mark 309

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500 XT NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M

Essentials

Architecture RDNA 1.0 Curie
Code name Navi 14 G71
Launch date 4 Aug 2020 1 March 2007
Place in performance rating 512 511
Type Desktop Mobile workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $99.99
Price now $99.99
Value for money (0-100) 3.97

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1757 MHz 575 MHz
Compute units 24
Core clock speed 1187 MHz 575 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 7 nm 90 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 337.3 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 10.80 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.398 TFLOPS
Pipelines 1536 24
Pixel fill rate 56.22 GPixel/s
Render output units 32
Texture fill rate 168.7 GTexel/s 13.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 6400 million 278 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 MXM-III
Recommended system power (PSU) 350 Watt
Supplementary power connectors None
Width IGP
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.1 9.0c
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.1
Shader Model 6.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 224.0 GB/s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 700 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective) 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 256
Shared memory 0