NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

4302 points

18% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

104 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

53 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

76 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

41 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Far Cry 6 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

59 FPS

75 FPS

16 FPS slightly higher Far Cry 6 FPS

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

68 FPS

72 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

2581.07 points

361% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

75551 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

75827 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

3% slightly higher core clock speed

1455 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1755 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

166% significantly larger memory bus width

96 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

192 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

50 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

91% significantly higher pixel rate

56.16 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

140.4 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

8.99 TFLOPS

39% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

2560

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

49% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

118th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop beats the GeForce GTX 1070 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1070 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 50 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop over the GeForce GTX 1070.