NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 294.49
$ 247.46 significantly less expensive
$ 541.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8261 points
12174 points
47% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

194 FPS
289 FPS
95 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

95 FPS
141 FPS
46 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
206 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

75 FPS
114 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3149 points
3862 points
22% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3690.41 points
5402.96 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

126840 points
168368 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

120026 points
158623 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

2280 MHz
4% slightly higher core clock speed
2190 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2497 MHz
2% slightly higher boost clock speed
2430 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
160 Bit
25% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
24% slightly higher memory bandwidth
360 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

145 W
106% significantly lower TDP
300 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

119.9 Gigapixels/s
194.4 Gigapixels/s
62% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

299.6 Gigatexels/s
544.3 Gigatexels/s
81% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840
7168
86% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120
224
86% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
80
66% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

50th of 594
31st of 594

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 May
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR7
GDDR6

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 5060 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 4070 GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 in gaming.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 4070 over the GeForce RTX 5060.

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