RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation vs Radeon R5 220 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCedarAD104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date21 December 2013 (10 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 speed650 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors292 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate5.200247.2
Floating-point processing power0.104 gflopsno data
ROPs464
TMUs8160

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1066 MHz18 GB/s
Memory bandwidth8.528 GB/s432.0 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGAPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.06.7
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 December 2013 21 March 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 100 Watt

R5 220 OEM has 426.3% lower power consumption.

RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 220 OEM and RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 220 OEM is a desktop card while RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM
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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Mobile Ada Generation
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