RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking525not rated
Place by popularity48not in top-100
Power efficiency18.69no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTiger Lake XeAD104
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date15 August 2020 (4 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 cores805120
Core clock speed400 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz1545 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)28 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rateno data247.2
Floating-point processing powerno data15.82 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data160
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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data2250 MHz
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 dataPortable 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 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 August 2020 21 March 2023
Chip lithography 10 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 28 Watt 100 Watt

Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs has 257.1% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs is a notebook graphics card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a mobile workstation one.


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Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs
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