Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) vs Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (98/100)

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell leads overall with a score of 98/100 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 Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Efficiency 55.0 Below Average WINNER 49.0 Poor
Gaming 44.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Fire Strike 32977 75325
Night Raid 102266 214655
Port Royal 7976 39888
Solar Bay 51967 255911
Time Spy 12936 42614
Wild Life Extreme 26514 110070

API

API specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
CUDA 8.9 12
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
1080p High 138 284
1080p Ultra 114 242
1440p Ultra 85 196
4K Ultra 49 118
CoD: Modern Warfare III 1191077950 305296252176
Counter-Strike 2 24319013076 36226320393
Cyberpunk 2077 102885726 25322116071
Far Cry 6 1281139254 221198185112
Forza Horizon 5 145958258 309235215175
Ghost of Tsushima 87735632 206170158107
Hogwarts Legacy 93806133 23518915089
Margin of Error High High
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 15414310959 319298224121
The Witcher 3 1701379755 343311216116

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 38369 90853
Face Detection (HP) 38189 103224
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 8316 16903
Image Segmentation (HP) 17301 48518
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27105 54618
Machine Translation (HP) 3845 7291
Object Detection (SP) 10208 26498
Pose Estimation (Q) 105500 338587
Style Transfer (SP) 196359 635289
Text Classification (SP) 3319 3894

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 223 img/sec 366.1 img/sec
Edge Detection 7.77 Gpixels/sec 35.2 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 145.8 img/sec 248 img/sec
Feature Matching 1.39 Gpixels/sec 2.47 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.2 Gpixels/sec 45 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 5.87 Gpixels/sec 23.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 14313 FPS 42574.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 458.7 Gpixels/sec 3040 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Laptop Desktop
GPU Codename AD104 GB202-300-A1
Purpose Professional Professional
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 7 165Hor above -AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3Dor above
Released March 21, 2023 March 18, 2026
Segment Mid-range High-end
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Launch price (MSRP) $8559

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Boost Clock 1545-2250 MHz (configurable) 2617 MHz
Compute Units (Pipelines) 40 188
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 128MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 40 188
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 190
Shading Units 5120 24064
Tensor Cores 160 752
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 160 752
Base Clock 1590 MHz

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Bus 192-bit 512-bit
ECC Yes Yes
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 12 GB 96 GB
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
DirectX 11 186 FPS 339 FPS
DirectX 12 84 FPS 154 FPS
G2D Mark 709 1391
GPU Compute 7625 Ops/s 26607 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Die Size 294 mm² 750 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Max. Temperature 95°C
TGP 60-140 W (configurable) 600 W
Transistor Count 35.8 billion 92.2 billion
Transistor Density 121.77 MTr/mm² 122.93 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification Nvidia RTX 3500 Laptop (Ada) Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell
Pixel Fill Rate 99-144 GPixel/s 497 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 247-360 GTexel/s 1968 GTexel/s

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