NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5934 points
42789 points
621% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

150 FPS
1019 FPS
870 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

75 FPS
503 FPS
428 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

103 FPS
740 FPS
637 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

57 FPS
425 FPS
368 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3004.43 points
14992.38 points
399% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

102733 points
383325 points
273% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

96388 points
380401 points
294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1110 MHz
2017 MHz
81% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1560 MHz
2407 MHz
54% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
512 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W
400% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

124.8 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
239% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120
21760
325% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
680
325% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
176
120% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

83rd of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5090 also has a significantly 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 3070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 5090 at 575 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 5090 over the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop.

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