GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile vs RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile with GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile, including specs and performance data.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile
2023
12 GB GDDR6, 115 Watt
48.02
+12.3%

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile outperforms RTX 5070 Mobile by a moderate 12% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking7290
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency29.90no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameno dataGB206
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (2 years ago)2025 (recently)

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 cores51204608
Core clock speedno data907 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)50 Watt
Texture fill rateno data205.2
Floating-point processing powerno data13.13 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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
Interfaceno dataPCIe 5.0 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 typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount12 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data448.0 GB/s
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR++

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

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.4
CUDA-12.0
DLSS-+

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile 48.02
+12.3%
RTX 5070 Mobile 42.75

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile 19659
+12.3%
RTX 5070 Mobile 17501

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 48.02 42.75
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile has a 12.3% higher aggregate performance score, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 5070 Mobile, on the other hand, has 130% lower power consumption.

The RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

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