NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded and AMD Radeon R9 390X videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded

  • Around 27% higher boost clock speed: 1335 MHz vs 1050 MHz
  • 462.3x more texture fill rate: 85.44 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 28 nm
  • 7.9x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • Around 31% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz
Boost clock speed 1335 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

  • Around 38% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 2048
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2 GB
  • Around 91% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 825 vs 432
  • Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9408 vs 6727
Specifications (specs)
Pipelines 2816 vs 2048
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 2 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 825 vs 432
PassMark - G3D Mark 9408 vs 6727

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
432
825
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
6727
9408
Name NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 390X
PassMark - G2D Mark 432 825
PassMark - G3D Mark 6727 9408
Geekbench - OpenCL 39773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4242

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA RTX A500 Embedded AMD Radeon R9 390X

Essentials

Architecture Ampere GCN 2.0
Code name GA107S Grenada
Place in performance rating 282 284
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 18 June 2015
Launch price (MSRP) $429
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1335 MHz 1050 MHz
Core clock speed 435 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 8 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 85.44 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 5.468 TFLOPS
Pipelines 2048 2816
Pixel fill rate 64.08 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 85.44 GTexel/s 184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 35 Watt 275 Watt
Compute units 44
Floating-point performance 5,914 gflops
Stream Processors 2816
Transistor count 6,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Portable Device Dependent 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor IGP
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Length 275 mm

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan
Mantle

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 88.00 GB/s 384 GB/s
Memory bus width 64 bit 512 bit
Memory clock speed 1375 MHz, 11 Gbps effective 1050 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore