RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded vs RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking62not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency29.79no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD103
Market segmentMobile workstationLaptop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year 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 cores51209728
Core clock speedno data1425 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2115 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt (60 - 115 Watt TGP)120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data643.0
Floating-point processing powerno data41.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data112
TMUsno data304
Tensor Coresno data304
Ray Tracing Coresno data76

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 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount12 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data576.0 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

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 120 Watt

RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile has 4.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile and RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Mobile
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NVIDIA RTX 5000 Mobile Ada Embedded
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