Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
VS
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 3500 Mobile (Ada) 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders against the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
- 15% higher maximum theoretical performance (23 vs 20 TFLOPS)
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
- Has 69% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 256 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 145 95 82 58 |
139 89 77 56 |
| The Witcher 3 | 170 137 97 55 |
164 129 95 53 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 243 190 130 76 |
236 183 130 71 |
| Far Cry 6 | 128 113 92 54 |
121 109 87 51 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 93 80 61 33 |
91 77 60 28 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 119 107 79 50 |
111 105 77 51 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 87 73 56 32 |
85 69 53 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 102 88 57 26 |
99 84 53 25 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 154 143 109 59 |
147 137 100 53 |
| 1080p High | 138 | 133 |
| 1080p Ultra | 114 | 109 |
| 1440p Ultra | 85 | 81 |
| 4K Ultra | 49 | 46 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12936 | 12514 |
| Solar Bay | 51967 | 54815 |
| Port Royal | 7976 | 7416 |
| Fire Strike | 32977 | 30057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 26514 | 23262 |
| Night Raid | 102266 | 113672 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 223 img/sec | 158.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 145.8 img/sec | 116.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.77 Gpixels/sec | 5.67 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 6.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.39 Gpixels/sec | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 458.7 Gpixels/sec | 528.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14313 FPS | 16372.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 709 | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 186 FPS | 177 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 85 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7625 Ops/s | 8365 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | GeekBench | 122515 |
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | GeekBench | 35869 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 8316 | 8642 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17301 | 20635 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27105 | 26378 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 38189 | 39776 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 105500 | 105983 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3319 | 2995 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3845 | 4507 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 10208 | 10198 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 38369 | 41078 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 196359 | 190315 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) and GeForce RTX 4070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 21, 2023 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | AD104 | AD106 (GN21-X6) |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (15th and 22nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | - | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) | 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 99-144 GPixel/s | 59-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 247-360 GTexel/s | 177-313 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-140 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 186 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 35.8 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.77 MTr/mm² | 123.12 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 95°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | Yes | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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