Arc 7-Cores iGPU vs RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated316
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Xe LPG (2023)
GPU code nameAD104Meteor Lake iGPU
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)14 December 2023 (less than a 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 cores51207
Core clock speed1110 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1545 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Wattno data
Texture fill rate247.2no data
Floating-point processing power15.82 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs160no data
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no 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 typeGDDR6no data
Maximum RAM amount12 GBno data
Memory bus width192 Bitno data
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/sno data
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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12_2
Shader Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 14 December 2023

Arc 7-Cores iGPU has an age advantage of 8 months.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and Arc 7-Cores iGPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation card while Arc 7-Cores iGPU is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
Intel Arc 7-Cores iGPU
Arc 7-Cores iGPU

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