Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) vs GeForce RTX 3060
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia RTX 3500 Mobile (Ada) with 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months older GeForce RTX 3060 that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
- Performs significantly better (up to 50%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 81% higher maximum theoretical performance (23 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 42% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 85 vs 60 FPS
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 145 95 82 58 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 170 137 97 55 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 243 190 130 76 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 128 113 92 54 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 93 80 61 33 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 119 107 79 50 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 87 73 56 32 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 102 88 57 26 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 154 143 109 59 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 138 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 114 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 85 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 49 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12936 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 51967 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 7976 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 32977 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 26514 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 102266 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 223 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 145.8 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.77 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.39 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 458.7 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14313 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 709 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 186 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 84 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 7625 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-07 (tach) | Cinebench 2024 | 7952 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 8316 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 17301 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 27105 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 38189 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 105500 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3319 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3845 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 10208 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 38369 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 196359 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 21, 2023 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | - | $329 |
| Case | Laptop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | AD104 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 165H or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (#15th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | - | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 5120 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 40 | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 160 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 48MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 99-144 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 247-360 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 60-140 W (configurable) | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 294 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 35.8 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.77 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 95°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 192-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | Yes | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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