GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs GTX 1070 Mobile
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
AD107 (GN21-X4)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 6 years and 7 months older GTX 1070 Mobile that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 87%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 6.7 TFLOPS)
- Shows 86% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 36 FPS
- Ray-tracing support with 24 dedicated RT cores
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 120 77 66 44 |
84 51 38 24 |
| The Witcher 3 | 141 112 79 42 |
78 59 41 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 205 153 110 54 |
126 88 60 26 |
| Far Cry 6 | 103 92 75 43 |
65 61 43 23 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 74 62 45 25 |
43 35 25 14 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 95 85 59 37 |
53 41 31 21 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 74 60 42 23 |
37 31 24 12 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 82 72 42 21 |
43 39 20 10 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 127 116 83 43 |
72 65 44 21 |
| 1080p High | 113 | 67 |
| 1080p Ultra | 92 | 52 |
| 1440p Ultra | 67 | 36 |
| 4K Ultra | 37 | 19 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10397 | 5540 |
| Solar Bay | 45002 | 14715 |
| Port Royal | 5819 | 1208 |
| Fire Strike | 26481 | 17004 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19820 | 11406 |
| Night Raid | 98330 | 56791 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 142.7 img/sec | 134.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 103.7 img/sec | 61.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.83 Gpixels/sec | 1.98 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.93 Gpixels/sec | 3.02 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.63 Gpixels/sec | 3.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.27 Gpixels/sec | 0.27 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 430.4 Gpixels/sec | 159.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13519.5 FPS | 4611.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 731 | 603 |
| DirectX 11 | 155 FPS | 92 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 72 FPS | 34 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6789 Ops/s | 4591 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 115610 |
| 📘 2026-09-04 (Viru) | Cinebench 2024 | 10216 |
| 📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 101184 |
| 📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 107583 |
| 📘 2025-11-17 (kritan) | Cinebench 2024 | 10306 |
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
No benchmark results yet
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 7421 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 19041 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 20913 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 35464 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 67110 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3086 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4740 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8644 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 32456 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 142039 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and GTX 1070 MobileGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 22, 2023 | August 15, 2016 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Pascal |
| GPU Codename | AD107 (GN21-X4) | GP104 |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above | - Intel Core i7 8750H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (43rd and 110th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) | 1442 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) | 1645 MHz |
| Shading Units | 3072 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 96 | 128 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 24 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | 96 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 24 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 48KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 71-114 GPixel/s | 105 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 141-228 GTexel/s | 211 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| TGP | 35-140 W (configurable) | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 16 nm |
| Die Size | 156 mm² | 314 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 18.9 billion | 7.2 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.15 MTr/mm² | 22.93 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 2002 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 8008 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 256-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 1.2 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 6.1 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | - |
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