NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs NVIDIA RTX A500 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

546% significantly better overall score

1882 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

289 FPS

240 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

49 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

117 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

24 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

173 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

33 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

96 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

18 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

674% significantly higher Blender score

697.32 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

311% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

40962 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

324% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

37410 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2190 MHz

163% significantly higher core clock speed

832 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

58% significantly higher boost clock speed

1537 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

150% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

274% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

295% significantly higher pixel rate

49.18 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

544.3 Gigatexels/s

453% significantly higher texture rate

98.37 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

7168

250% significantly more shading units

2048

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

250% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

150% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 586

216th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2022 March

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 RTX A500 Laptop specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the RTX A500 Laptop in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 4070 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the RTX A500 Laptop.