RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon R9 295X2

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking246not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.38no data
Power efficiency3.22no data
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVesuviusAD104
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Designreferenceno data
Release date29 April 2014 (10 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores28165120
Core clock speedno data1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1018 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate179.2247.2
Floating-point processing power5.733 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs176160
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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length307 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2 x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth640 GB/s432.0 GB/s

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, 4x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
Eyefinity+-
HDMI+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

CrossFire+-
FreeSync+-
HD3D+-
LiquidVR+-
TressFX+-
UVD+-
DDMA audio+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectXDirectX® 1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan+1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 April 2014 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 8 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 295X2 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 295X2 is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R9 295X2
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