NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada
Opinion and specs

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada is a high-end professional graphics card: built to speed up video, design and 3D work, not to play games. It sits at 15 of 130 in the ranking, with 70.0% of the power of the best graphics card in the catalogue.

Yes, at 1080p on good settings, and at 1440p tweaking a detail or two in the heaviest games. But gaming is not its main job: that power is there for video, design and 3D work.

Yes, easily: 12 GB leaves room even at 1440p with everything high. What will set the limit is the card's power, not its memory.

No. Beyond being a different chip, in laptops each maker decides how much power it is allowed to draw: on this model, between 60 and 140 W. That is why two laptops with the same card can perform quite differently.

NVIDIA RTX 3500 Ada came out in 2023.

The closest in performance is Apple M5 Pro 20-Core GPU.

It is currently fitted in a single laptop, which costs €4144.

There is a faster and cheaper option: the Apple M5 Max 32-Core GPU is 22% faster and its entry price is €145 lower.