NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop, 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

8113 points
14473 points
78% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
355 FPS
158 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
182 FPS
85 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
253 FPS
113 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
145 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
7059.26 points
108% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
181715 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
172409 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
12% slightly higher core clock speed
1335 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
Identical
256 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
576 GB/s
28% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
120 W
83% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
189.8 Gigapixels/s
14% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
515.3 Gigatexels/s
62% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
9728
65% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
304
65% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
112
16% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
19th 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
GDDR6

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 vs GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3070 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 3070.

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