RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile vs Radeon RX Vega 2

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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 data29.64
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameVega Raven Ridgeno data
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2018 (6 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
Boost clock speed1100 MHzno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizeno datalarge

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 widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Shared memory--

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_112 Ultimate

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2018 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 115 Watt

RX Vega 2 has 666.7% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 2 and RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 2 is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
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