RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 2070 Super

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking70not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation41.81no data
Power efficiency15.33no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU104AD104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date9 July 2019 (5 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores25605120
Core clock speed1605 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1770 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors13,600 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)215 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate283.2247.2
Floating-point processing power9.062 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs160160
Tensor Cores320160
Ray Tracing Cores4040

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s432.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-CPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

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

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 July 2019 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 215 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 3 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 140% more advanced lithography process, and 115% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Super and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 2070 Super is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super
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