NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Price

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$ 541.95

$ 339.79

$ 202.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

81% significantly better overall score

6694 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

128 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

161 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

65 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

77 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

94 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

113 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

54 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

61 FPS

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Gaming Benchmarks

Forza Horizon 5 FPS

Ultra settings at 1080p

108 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Forza Horizon 5 FPS

81 FPS

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2309 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

72% significantly higher Blender score

3124.65 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

101567 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

99687 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

13% slightly higher core clock speed

1925 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

17% slightly higher boost clock speed

2075 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

25% slightly higher memory bandwidth

288 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

200 W

49% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

46% significantly higher pixel rate

132.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

42% slightly higher texture rate

381.8 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

42% slightly better floating point performance

24.44 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

21% slightly more shading units

5888

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

21% slightly more texture mapping units

184

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586

73rd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 May

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 4070 vs GeForce RTX 4060 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4060 in our tests.

The GeForce RTX 4070 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 also 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 4060 has a significantly lower TDP at 200 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 4070 at 300 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 over the GeForce RTX 4060.