RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon R4 (Beema)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1093not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBeemaAD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date29 April 2014 (10 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 cores1285120
Core clock speed800 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data247.2
Floating-point processing powerno data15.82 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data432.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 8 years, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Beema) and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R4 (Beema) is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R4 (Beema)
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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
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