NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 541.95
$ 25.04 slightly less expensive
$ 566.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points
13110 points
7% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS
306 FPS
17 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
156 FPS
14 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS
227 FPS
21 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS
124 FPS
10 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points
5256 points
36% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points
6174.82 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points
188870 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points
181089 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz
2325 MHz
6% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz
2512 MHz
3% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit
192 Bit
20% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
672 GB/s
86% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
250 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s
201 Gigapixels/s
3% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s
12% slightly higher texture rate
482.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168
16% slightly more shading units
6144

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224
16% slightly more texture mapping units
192

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
Identical
80

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 587
27th of 587

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2025 March

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 4070 vs GeForce RTX 5070 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 4070 beats the GeForce RTX 5070 in gaming performance.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce RTX 5070.

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