NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points

2% slightly better overall score

7909 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS

6 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

190 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

137 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

76 FPS

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points

3588.48 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

109744 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

112405 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1395 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz

1% slightly higher boost clock speed

1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s

75% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W

115 W

91% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s

103% significantly higher pixel rate

81.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s

30% slightly higher texture rate

244.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

20.31 TFLOPS

30% slightly better floating point performance

15.62 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888

27% slightly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184

27% slightly more texture mapping units

144

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

53rd of 586

57th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop beats the GeForce RTX 3070 in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3070 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. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3070 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3070 at 220 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 4070 Laptop over the GeForce RTX 3070.