RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs RTX A500 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking311not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency20.05no data
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA107SAD104
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date22 March 2022 (2 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 cores20485120
Core clock speed832 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1537 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)100 Watt
Texture fill rate98.37247.2
Floating-point processing power6.296 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs4864
TMUs64160
Tensor Cores64160
Ray Tracing Cores1640

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

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 amount4 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 22 March 2022 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 8 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 100 Watt

RTX A500 Mobile has 66.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 60% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between RTX A500 Mobile and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA RTX A500 Mobile
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