UHD Graphics 48EU Mobile vs RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation

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
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Generation 12.2 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameAD104Alder Lake GT1
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)4 January 2022 (2 years 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 cores5120384
Core clock speed1110 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1150 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rate247.227.60
Floating-point processing power15.82 TFLOPS0.8832 TFLOPS
ROPs6412
TMUs16024
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 x16Ring Bus

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 typeGDDR6System Shared
Maximum RAM amount12 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed2250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth432.0 GB/sno data

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 DependentPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.86.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 45 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

UHD Graphics 48EU Mobile, on the other hand, has 122.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation and UHD Graphics 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation card while UHD Graphics 48EU Mobile is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
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Intel UHD Graphics 48EU Mobile
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