Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) vs 3000 Laptop (Ada)
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We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX 3500 Mobile (Ada) 12 GB with 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders against the 3000 Mobile (Ada) 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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)
- Performs better (up to 37%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Shows 39% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 85 vs 61 FPS
- 16% higher maximum theoretical performance (23 vs 19.9 TFLOPS)
- Includes 4 GB more video 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 |
117 73 60 41 |
| The Witcher 3 | 170 137 97 55 |
130 103 76 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 243 190 130 76 |
187 135 101 49 |
| Far Cry 6 | 128 113 92 54 |
97 86 69 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 93 80 61 33 |
67 55 42 23 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 119 107 79 50 |
85 73 53 36 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 87 73 56 32 |
68 49 37 24 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 102 88 57 26 |
71 66 36 17 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 154 143 109 59 |
113 103 73 37 |
| 1080p High | 138 | 104 |
| 1080p Ultra | 114 | 83 |
| 1440p Ultra | 85 | 61 |
| 4K Ultra | 49 | 34 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12936 | 8373 |
| Solar Bay | 51967 | 36647 |
| Port Royal | 7976 | 5210 |
| Fire Strike | 32977 | 20658 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 26514 | 14678 |
| Night Raid | 102266 | 51077 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 223 img/sec | 196.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 145.8 img/sec | 118.9 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 4.22 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.77 Gpixels/sec | 5.54 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 6.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.39 Gpixels/sec | 1.4 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 458.7 Gpixels/sec | 573 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14313 FPS | 17661.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 709 | 542 |
| DirectX 11 | 186 FPS | 141 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 79 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7625 Ops/s | 6048 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
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 | 7093 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17301 | 14759 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27105 | 23321 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 38189 | 29211 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 105500 | 87917 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3319 | 3395 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3845 | 3464 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 10208 | 8181 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 38369 | 30150 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 196359 | 167055 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) and 3000 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 21, 2023 | March 21, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | AD104 | AD106 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (15th and 31st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Boost Clock | 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) | 1165-2160 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 | 56-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 247-360 GTexel/s | 168-311 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 | 188 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 35.8 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.77 MTr/mm² | 121.81 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 95°C | 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 | Yes |
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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