RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce GT 130M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameG96CAD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date8 January 2009 (15 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores325120
Core clock speed600 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors314 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate9.600247.2
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
Gigaflops144no data
ROPs864
TMUs16160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options2-way-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountUp to 1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/800 (GDDR3) MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 (DDR2)/25 (GDDR3)432.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsSingle Link DVIDisplayPortVGAHDMIDual Link DVIPortable Device Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.8
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2009 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 55 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 100 Watt

GT 130M has 334.8% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 1000% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 130M and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GT 130M is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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