RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs HD Graphics 4000

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1069not rated
Place by popularity34not in top-100
ArchitectureGen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameIvy BridgeAD104
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date23 March 2011 (13 years ago)21 March 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores165120
Core clock speed350 MHzno data
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistors1,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology22 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown100 Watt
Texture fill rate20.80247.2
Floating-point performance0.3328 gflopsno 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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 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 amountSystem Shared12 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data18 GB/s
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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.04.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.1.801.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 March 2011 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 22 nm 5 nm

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 340% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between HD Graphics 4000 and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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