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GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop vs 3070 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X2)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E5)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Mobile over RTX 4050 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 29%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 28% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 53 FPS
  • 37% higher maximum theoretical performance (16.6 vs 12.1 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 192 GB/s
  • Features 80 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 46% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (118K vs 81K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (5120 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
vs
RTX 3070 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
107
66
56
35
124
78
67
49
The Witcher 3
117
91
67
34
137
112
82
43
Counter-Strike 2
167
126
88
43
199
149
109
57
Far Cry 6
87
79
59
32
107
96
75
41
Hogwarts Legacy
62
52
34
20
78
65
47
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
75
68
44
30
93
84
59
42
Ghost of Tsushima
57
45
33
17
73
58
45
24
Cyberpunk 2077
61
57
34
13
80
71
44
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
98
90
62
32
127
114
84
44
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 92 113
1080p Ultra 75 92
1440p Ultra 53 68
4K Ultra 28 38
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Time Spy 8212 10477
Solar Bay 35375 45198
Port Royal 4624 6247
Fire Strike 21909 26725
Wild Life Extreme 15492 21132
Night Raid 84848 82499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4050 Laptop
81436
RTX 3070 Laptop +46%
118499
Background Blur 141.4 img/sec 170.3 img/sec
Face Detection 84.1 img/sec 113.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.07 Gpixels/sec 5.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.91 Gpixels/sec 7.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.85 Gpixels/sec 6.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.1 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 325.9 Gpixels/sec 467 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 11008.8 FPS 15131.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark 622 626
DirectX 11 129 FPS 137 FPS
DirectX 12 60 FPS 62 FPS
GPU Compute 5847 Ops/s 6642 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 14311 & 8902 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4050 Laptop
2567.25
RTX 3070 Laptop +16%
2973.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2120 & 1893 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343
Add View all (8)
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL123169
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Cinebench 202410455
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122261
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Steel Nomad Light12032
Add View all (4)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4050 Laptop
15570
RTX 3070 Laptop +11%
17250
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 6233 6969
Image Segmentation (HP) 16395 17142
Image Super Resolution (Q) 18240 16426
Face Detection (HP) 30758 31628
Pose Estimation (Q) 61300 74413
Text Classification (SP) 3124 2522
Machine Translation (HP) 4357 3639
Object Detection (SP) 7812 9002
Depth Estimation (Q) 29192 27790
Style Transfer (SP) 117759 160005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop and 3070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Entry-level High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X2) GA104 (GN20-E5)
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 7700S - Radeon RX 6700M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 12700H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (67th and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2070 MHz (configurable) 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1605-2370 MHz (configurable) 1290-1620 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2560 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 80 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 32 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 20 40
Tensor Cores 80 160
Ray-tracing Cores 20 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 51-76 GPixel/s 103-130 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 128-190 GTexel/s 206-259 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4050 Laptop
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
RTX 3070 Laptop +37%
13.2-16.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 80-150 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 96-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4050 Laptop
192 GB/s
RTX 3070 Laptop +133%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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