RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Iris Xe Graphics G4

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated62
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data29.57
ArchitectureGeneration 12.1 (2020−2021)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake GT2no data
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 September 2020 (4 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 cores3845120
Core clock speed300 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate26.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.8448 TFLOPSno data
ROPs12no data
TMUs24no data

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x1no 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared192 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared16000 MHz
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 ConnectorsNo outputsno data

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2020 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 115 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G4 has 666.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G4 and RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G4
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