NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 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

12174 points
16967 points
39% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS
394 FPS
105 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS
213 FPS
72 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS
288 FPS
82 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS
163 FPS
49 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points
7942.06 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points
215096 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points
191283 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz
121% significantly higher core clock speed
990 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz
60% significantly higher boost clock speed
1515 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit
256 Bit
60% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s
896 GB/s
148% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W
95 W
215% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s
14% slightly higher pixel rate
169.7 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s
9% slightly higher texture rate
496.9 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168
10496
46% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224
328
46% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

80
112
40% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586
14th of 586

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 5090 Laptop comparison

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 4070 in our tests.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop is better than the GeForce RTX 4070.

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