RTX 3500 Ada Laptop GPU: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU is the 100W efficiency step of NVIDIA's 2023 workstation ladder — ranked, in this catalog's composite, above its own bigger sibling. This guide covers its 13 recorded game benchmarks at 1080p, seven with a medium column, and its nine-model fleet.

Where the RTX 3500 Ada sits in 2026

The composite ranks it #13 of 341 (score 78.8) — two places above the 130W RTX 4000 Ada (#15, 77.2) despite a smaller shader count on record. The neighbors: RTX 4080 Laptop (#10, 81.5), RTX A5000 (#11, 80.4) and RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell (#12, 80) above; the desktop RTX 3070 (#14, 78.5), RTX 4000 Ada (#15, 77.2) and RX 7800M (#16, 77) below. Top-15 with a 100W envelope is a strong efficiency statement — the ranking's coin-flip with the 4000 Ada notwithstanding.

What the chip brings

The record lists 5120 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR6, 15.82 TFLOPS, a 100W envelope and a 4nm process, with CUDA, DLSS and Resizable BAR. Public benchmarks: PassMark 19751, Time Spy 12806, Fire Strike 29248, Vulkan 106530 — the fullest public-benchmark set of the three Ada records on these pages.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: CS:GO and Overwatch at their 240 ceilings, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 235, F1 22 183, GTA V 170, Dota 2 Reborn 162, PUBG at its 140 ceiling, Far Cry 5 135, Final Fantasy XV 129, Baldur's Gate 3 119, X-Plane 11 111, Cyberpunk 2077 102. The medium column runs coherent nearly everywhere — Wonderlands 235 to 296, F1 22 183 to 223, X-Plane 111 to 138 — with Far Cry 5's 135-high/133-medium pair a two-frame recording artifact to read as a tie.

Laptops that carry it

Nine models: the 2023 core (Precision 7780 $2099, ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 $2340, Precision 5680/7680 $1126, ZBook Fury 16 G10 $1126), 2024's Precision 5690 and ZBook Fury 16 G11 at $1408, plus the 2022 ZBook Power G10 ($826) and ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 ($901) — the latter pair the value entries of this roster.

Bottom line

The 3500 Ada is the efficiency pick of the Ada workstation ladder: top-15 composite at 100W, a Cyberpunk 102 at 1080p high with medium headroom to 113, and a small fleet whose 2022-23 entries now sit at $826-1126. For thin chassis that must last all day, it is arguably the sweet spot of the professional line.