Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada vs 3500 Laptop (Ada)
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Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada
AD104
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada 20 GB with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 5 months older 3500 Mobile (Ada) 12 GB that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada
- Shows 8% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 92 vs 85 FPS
- 16% higher maximum theoretical performance (26.7 vs 23 TFLOPS)
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
- Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
- Has 20% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 360 GB/s
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 149 98 91 63 |
145 95 82 58 |
| The Witcher 3 | 177 143 103 54 |
170 137 97 55 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 253 201 135 80 |
243 190 130 76 |
| Far Cry 6 | 131 123 101 58 |
128 113 92 54 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 102 82 66 34 |
93 80 61 33 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 126 119 88 56 |
119 107 79 50 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 94 79 61 33 |
87 73 56 32 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 112 96 64 30 |
102 88 57 26 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 175 157 119 65 |
154 143 109 59 |
| 1080p High | 147 | 138 |
| 1080p Ultra | 122 | 114 |
| 1440p Ultra | 92 | 85 |
| 4K Ultra | 53 | 49 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 14438 | 12936 |
| Solar Bay | 65875 | 51967 |
| Port Royal | 8974 | 7976 |
| Fire Strike | 37396 | 32977 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 26514 |
| Night Raid | 158480 | 102266 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 235.3 img/sec | 223 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 157.9 img/sec | 145.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.53 Gpixels/sec | 5.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.44 Gpixels/sec | 7.77 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.87 Gpixels/sec | 7.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.58 Gpixels/sec | 1.39 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 737.7 Gpixels/sec | 458.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 22409.2 FPS | 14313 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1110 | 709 |
| DirectX 11 | 203 FPS | 186 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 93 FPS | 84 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11869 Ops/s | 7625 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) | 9717 | 8316 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 19365 | 17301 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 29227 | 27105 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 40416 | 38189 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 105639 | 105500 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3577 | 3319 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4193 | 3845 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 10820 | 10208 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 36574 | 38369 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 200936 | 196359 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada and 3500 Laptop (Ada)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | August 9, 2023 | March 21, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1250 | - |
| Case | Desktop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | AD104 | AD104 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 14700K or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above |
Desktop GPU rating (#35th place)
Laptop GPU ranking (#15th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1500 MHz | - |
| Boost Clock | 2175 MHz | 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 80 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 48MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 174 GPixel/s | 99-144 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 418 GTexel/s | 247-360 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 130 W | 60-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 35 billion | 35.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 119.05 MTr/mm² | 121.77 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | - | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 20 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 160-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | 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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