Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) vs 3500 Laptop (Ada)

We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX 4000 Mobile (Ada) with 58 pipelines and 7424 shaders against the 3500 Mobile (Ada) that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3500 Mobile (Ada) over RTX 4000 Mobile (Ada)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada)
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 46% higher maximum theoretical performance (33.6 vs 23 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 99 vs 85 FPS
  • Features 72 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 45% more shading units (7424 vs 5120)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
159
108
95
69
145
95
82
58
The Witcher 3
180
155
112
58
170
137
97
55
Counter-Strike 2
262
205
144
80
243
190
130
76
Far Cry 6
140
128
106
64
128
113
92
54
Hogwarts Legacy
110
92
71
36
93
80
61
33
CoD: Modern Warfare III
137
128
96
65
119
107
79
50
Ghost of Tsushima
97
82
66
38
87
73
56
32
Cyberpunk 2077
120
109
71
30
102
88
57
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
190
174
132
71
154
143
109
59
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 155 138
1080p Ultra 131 114
1440p Ultra 99 85
4K Ultra 57 49
Margin of Error High High

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 15498 12936
Solar Bay 67951 51967
Port Royal 10118 7976
Fire Strike 36295 32977
Wild Life Extreme - 26514
Night Raid 130940 102266
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 187.1 img/sec 223 img/sec
Face Detection 139.5 img/sec 145.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.71 Gpixels/sec 5.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.53 Gpixels/sec 7.77 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.38 Gpixels/sec 7.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.55 Gpixels/sec 1.39 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 577.7 Gpixels/sec 458.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16849 FPS 14313 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 714 709
DirectX 11 214 FPS 186 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 8532 Ops/s 7625 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]458 & 893 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10]59 & 85 samples

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 8658 8316
Image Segmentation (HP) 17759 17301
Image Super Resolution (Q) 28281 27105
Face Detection (HP) 37971 38189
Pose Estimation (Q) 113009 105500
Text Classification (SP) 3535 3319
Machine Translation (HP) 4038 3845
Object Detection (SP) 11288 10208
Depth Estimation (Q) 38963 38369
Style Transfer (SP) 236141 196359
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 4000 Laptop (Ada) and 3500 Laptop (Ada)

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 21, 2023 March 21, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Professional
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD104 AD104
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (12th and 15th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Boost Clock 1465-2260 MHz (configurable) 1545-2250 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 7424 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 232 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 58 40
Tensor Cores 232 160
Ray-tracing Cores 58 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 117-181 GPixel/s 99-144 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340-524 GTexel/s 247-360 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
21.8-33.6 TFLOPS
15.8-23 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 60-175 W (configurable) 60-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 294 mm² 294 mm²
Transistor Count 35.8 billion 35.8 billion
Transistor Density 121.77 MTr/mm² 121.77 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 95°C 95°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 192-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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