NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24 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 3090

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

13991 points

76% significantly better overall score

7909 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

333 FPS

142 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

190 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

169 FPS

74 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

95 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

241 FPS

104 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

137 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

134 FPS

58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

76 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5820.93 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

3588.48 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

194465 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

109744 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

179816 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

112405 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1400 MHz

0.36% slightly higher core clock speed

1395 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1695 MHz

Identical

1695 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

936.2 GB/s

265% significantly higher memory bandwidth

256 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

350 W

115 W

204% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

189.8 Gigapixels/s

133% significantly higher pixel rate

81.36 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

556 Gigatexels/s

127% significantly higher texture rate

244.1 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

35.58 TFLOPS

127% significantly better floating point performance

15.62 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

10496

127% significantly more shading units

4608

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

328

127% significantly more texture mapping units

144

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

133% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

25th 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

GDDR6X

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3090 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3090 beats the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop in gaming performance.

The GeForce RTX 3090 has a slightly 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 4070 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3090 at 350 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 3090 is faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop.