RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon RX 6850M XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking77not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency18.88no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 22AD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date4 January 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 cores25605120
Core clock speed2321 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed2581 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors17,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate413.0247.2
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS15.82 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs160160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Cores4040

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 sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 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 Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2022 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 1 year, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 65% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6850M XT and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6850M XT is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT
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