RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon R7 435 OEM

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 data29.74
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameOlandno data
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date30 June 2016 (8 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 cores3205120
Core clock speed920 MHzno data
Number of transistors950 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate18.40no data
Floating-point processing power0.5888 TFLOPSno data
ROPs8no data
TMUs20no 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 x8no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAno data
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL1.2no data
Vulkan1.2.131-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 115 Watt

R7 435 OEM has 130% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 435 OEM and RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 435 OEM is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 435 OEM
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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile
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