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NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Graphics processor

Rendering performance

Median score · higher is better

Three-scene Blender rendering throughput. Versions, operating systems and rendering backends remain separate. This is not a gaming score.

Blender 5.1.1 / Windows / OPTIX
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU 3,944.07 samples/min 14 complete runs · Middle 50%: 3,741.56 - 4,001.79 · Latest: 2026-06-19

Community submissions; cooling, power limits and system configuration can affect results.

Graphics & compute benchmarks

Archived cohort medians

GFXBench, GLBenchmark and CompuBench results retain the tested system, API, operating system and resolution. Offscreen tests fix the render resolution; onscreen results also reflect the display workload. These historical submissions do not establish performance in current games.

1080p ALU 2 OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

3,799.01* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p Driver Overhead 2 OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

257.70* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p Manhattan 3.1 OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

771.89* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p Manhattan OffscreenWindows / DirectX / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,617.59* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p Manhattan OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

927.50* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p T-Rex OffscreenWindows / DirectX / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,433.18* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p T-Rex OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,729.20* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1080p Texturing OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 1920 x 1080 / offscreen · MTexels/s

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

268,026* MTexels/s

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

1440p Manhattan 3.1.1 OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 2560 x 1440 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

545.62* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

4K Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / DirectX / 3840 x 2160 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

139.67* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

4K Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / DirectX 12 / 3840 x 2160 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

134.60* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

4K Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 3840 x 2160 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

126.10* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

4K Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / Vulkan / 3840 x 2160 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

146.04* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / DirectX / 2560 x 1440 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

333.68* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / DirectX 12 / 2560 x 1440 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

329.01* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

Aztec Ruins High Tier OffscreenWindows / OpenGL / 2560 x 1440 / offscreen · fps

Higher is better.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

311.08* fps

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

Host configuration not reported.

Median results, not the best run. Sample counts and individual test dates are unreported. Different systems using the same GPU remain separate configurations.

Benchmark results

  • G3D Mark · version unreported · g3d_mark19,722* pointsPlatform unreported Compare results
  • Geekbench GPU (reported compilation) · version unreported · OpenCL112,197*Platform unreported Compare results
  • Geekbench GPU (reported compilation) · version unreported · Vulkan100,119*Platform unreported Compare results

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 5.1.1 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,019.53 samples/min

14 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 5.1.1 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

3,944.07 samples/min

14 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
3741.5595849193
75th percentile
4001.78652554
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 5.1.1 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,305.06 samples/min

14 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 5.1.1 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,599.14 samples/min

14 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,193.47 samples/min

19 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,055.41 samples/min

4 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,791.03 samples/min

19 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
4255.3914969915
75th percentile
4874.1289172126
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,348.34 samples/min

4 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
3843.68589243
75th percentile
4475.7104363398
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,357.54 samples/min

19 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,228.27 samples/min

4 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,239.29 samples/min

19 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.5.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,064.65 samples/min

4 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,071.87 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,095.64 samples/min

5 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,328.81 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
4258.4424201475
75th percentile
4348.756081877
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,421.35 samples/min

5 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
4417.8960286254
75th percentile
4431.3707581078
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,225.58 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,292.71 samples/min

5 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,995.79 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.4.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,045.03 samples/min

5 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.3.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

981.07 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.3.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,009.99 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
3519.8885523568
75th percentile
4076.6670690791
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.3.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,069.64 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.3.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,959.28 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.2.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

989.36 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.2.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,009.10 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
3750.4877974063
75th percentile
4190.514739051
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.2.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,045.81 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.2.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,973.92 samples/min

3 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 4.0.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

995.50 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 4.0.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,067.67 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
3084.2150671746
75th percentile
4639.2308772486
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 4.0.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,142.92 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 4.0.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,929.25 samples/min

9 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / classroomOPTIX / Windows · 3.6.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,138.08 samples/min

7 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / Complete suiteOPTIX / Windows · 3.6.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

4,586.32 samples/min

7 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
25th percentile
2669.4684294693
75th percentile
5355.6798823122
Blender Cycles / junkshopOPTIX / Windows · 3.6.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

1,183.13 samples/min

7 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions
Blender Cycles / monsterOPTIX / Windows · 3.6.0 · samples/min

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU

2,265.10 samples/min

7 submissions · median result

Latest submission:
Rendering backend
OPTIX
Operating system
Windows
Statistic
Median
Evaluation type
community rendering submissions

System configuration

Detailed specifications

Specifications 1 · 3 fields
G3D Mark
19,722* points
Scope and conditions
benchmark_context
suite
G3D Mark*
native_context
GPU model
RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU*
Snapshot date
2026-10-05*
Model
RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU*
Hardware class
Mobile*
Specifications 2 · 3 fields
Device
NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU*
Scope and conditions
benchmark_context
suite
Geekbench GPU (reported compilation)*
backend_columns
  • CUDA*
  • Metal*
  • OpenCL*
  • Vulkan*
test_configuration_verified
No*
comparable
No*
OpenCL
112,197*
Scope and conditions
benchmark_context
suite
Geekbench GPU (reported compilation)*
backend_columns
  • CUDA*
  • Metal*
  • OpenCL*
  • Vulkan*
test_configuration_verified
No*
comparable
No*
Vulkan
100,119*
Scope and conditions
benchmark_context
suite
Geekbench GPU (reported compilation)*
backend_columns
  • CUDA*
  • Metal*
  • OpenCL*
  • Vulkan*
test_configuration_verified
No*
comparable
No*

* Provisional data