AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (85/100)

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX leads overall with a score of 85/100 compared to Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) (48/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
4K Gaming 91.0 Excellent —
DeviceBenchmark Score 85.0 Very Good —
Rasterization 94.0 Excellent —
Ray Tracing 78.0 Very Good —
Efficiency — 55.0 Below Average
Gaming — 44.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Memory Size 24 GB GDDR6 (384-bit) —
Bus — 192-bit
ECC — Yes
Effective Memory Speed — 18000 Mbps
Memory Clock — 2250 MHz
Memory Size — 12 GB
Memory Type — GDDR6

Performance

Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Stream Processors 6,144 Stream Processors —

Power

Power specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Tdp 355W TBP —

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Fire Strike — 32977
Night Raid — 102266
Port Royal — 7976
Solar Bay — 51967
Time Spy — 12936
Wild Life Extreme — 26514

API

API specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
CUDA — 8.9
DLSS — DLSS 3
DirectX — 12
DisplayPort — 1.4a
OpenCL — 3.0
OpenGL — 4.6
Ray Tracing — Yes
Vulkan — 1.3

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
1080p High — 138
1080p Ultra — 114
1440p Ultra — 85
4K Ultra — 49
CoD: Modern Warfare III — 1191077950
Counter-Strike 2 — 24319013076
Cyberpunk 2077 — 102885726
Far Cry 6 — 1281139254
Forza Horizon 5 — 145958258
Ghost of Tsushima — 87735632
Hogwarts Legacy — 93806133
Margin of Error — High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider — 15414310959
The Witcher 3 — 1701379755

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Backend — DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) — 38369
Face Detection (HP) — 38189
Framework — ONNX
Image Classification (SP) — 8316
Image Segmentation (HP) — 17301
Image Super Resolution (Q) — 27105
Machine Translation (HP) — 3845
Object Detection (SP) — 10208
Pose Estimation (Q) — 105500
Style Transfer (SP) — 196359
Text Classification (SP) — 3319

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
API — OpenCL
Background Blur — 223 img/sec
Edge Detection — 7.77 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection — 145.8 img/sec
Feature Matching — 1.39 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur — 7.2 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection — 5.87 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics — 14313 FPS
Stereo Matching — 458.7 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Architecture AMD RDNA 3 (Chiplet Design) Ada Lovelace
Build — Discrete
Case — Laptop
GPU Codename — AD104
Purpose — Professional
Recommended CPU — -Intel Core Ultra 7 165Hor above
Released — March 21, 2023
Segment — Mid-range
Vendor — Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Boost Clock — 1545-2250 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) — 40
Instructions Per Cycle — 2 IPC
L1 Cache — 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache — 48MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores — 40
Render Output Units (ROPs) — 64
Shading Units — 5120
Tensor Cores — 160
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) — 160

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
DirectX 11 — 186 FPS
DirectX 12 — 84 FPS
G2D Mark — 709
GPU Compute — 7625 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Die Size — 294 mm²
Fabrication Process — 5 nm
Interface — PCIe 4.0 x16
Manufacturing — TSMC
Max. Temperature — 95°C
TGP — 60-140 W (configurable)
Transistor Count — 35.8 billion
Transistor Density — 121.77 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada)
Pixel Fill Rate — 99-144 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate — 247-360 GTexel/s

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