RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs GeForce RTX 4070

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking20not rated
Place by popularity32not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation60.21no data
Power efficiency24.38no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD104AD104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date12 April 2023 (1 year ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 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 cores58885120
Core clock speed1920 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed2475 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate455.4247.2
Floating-point processing power29.15 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs184160
Tensor Cores184160
Ray Tracing Cores4640

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length240 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-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 typeGDDR6XGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1313 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth504.2 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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4070 is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
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