Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada) vs 3500 Laptop (Ada)
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We compared two discrete laptop professional GPUs: the Nvidia RTX 5000 Mobile (Ada) 16 GB with 76 pipelines and 9728 shaders against the 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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 5000 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs better (up to 24%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 85% higher maximum theoretical performance (42.6 vs 23 TFLOPS)
- Shows 18% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 100 vs 85 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Features 144 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 576 vs 432 GB/s
- Achieves 28% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (168K vs 131K)
- Has 90% more shading units (9728 vs 5120)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 163 108 97 70 |
145 95 82 58 |
| The Witcher 3 | 184 155 108 57 |
170 137 97 55 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 267 202 145 82 |
243 190 130 76 |
| Far Cry 6 | 140 130 109 64 |
128 113 92 54 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 110 92 73 37 |
93 80 61 33 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 142 133 98 65 |
119 107 79 50 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 99 83 67 39 |
87 73 56 32 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 123 109 69 31 |
102 88 57 26 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 187 178 132 72 |
154 143 109 59 |
| 1080p High | 157 | 138 |
| 1080p Ultra | 132 | 114 |
| 1440p Ultra | 100 | 85 |
| 4K Ultra | 57 | 49 |
| Margin of Error | High | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 15858 | 12936 |
| Solar Bay | 63693 | 51967 |
| Port Royal | 9606 | 7976 |
| Fire Strike | 38278 | 32977 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 32627 | 26514 |
| Night Raid | 70978 | 102266 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 224.2 img/sec | 223 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 156 img/sec | 145.8 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 6.84 Gpixels/sec | 5.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 9.15 Gpixels/sec | 7.77 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 10.6 Gpixels/sec | 7.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.48 Gpixels/sec | 1.39 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 882.6 Gpixels/sec | 458.7 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 23725.9 FPS | 14313 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 756 | 709 |
| DirectX 11 | 231 FPS | 186 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 99 FPS | 84 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9393 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) | 9400 | 8316 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17325 | 17301 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 30156 | 27105 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 42321 | 38189 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 140618 | 105500 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3278 | 3319 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3691 | 3845 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12106 | 10208 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 43574 | 38369 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 283979 | 196359 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 5000 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 | AD103 | AD104 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (8th and 15th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Boost Clock | 1460-2190 MHz (configurable) | 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 9728 | 5120 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 304 | 160 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 76 | 40 |
| Tensor Cores | 304 | 160 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 76 | 40 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 48MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 164-245 GPixel/s | 99-144 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 444-666 GTexel/s | 247-360 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-175 W (configurable) | 60-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 379 mm² | 294 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.9 billion | 35.8 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.11 MTr/mm² | 121.77 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 95°C | 95°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 18000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | Yes | Yes |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 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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