GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop vs RTX 2070

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile with 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older RTX RTX 2070 that utilizes 36 pipelines and 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the NanoReview Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 2070 over RTX 4060 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 20%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 95% higher maximum theoretical performance (14.6 vs 7.5 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 58 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 33% more shading units (3072 vs 2304)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070
  • Features 192 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
120
77
66
44
109
70
56
40
The Witcher 3
141
112
79
42
124
100
73
38
Counter-Strike 2
205
153
110
54
181
132
96
48
Far Cry 6
103
92
75
43
92
83
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
74
62
45
25
65
56
41
19
CoD: Modern Warfare III
95
85
59
37
79
74
50
34
Ghost of Tsushima
74
60
42
23
64
50
36
20
Cyberpunk 2077
82
72
42
21
67
63
35
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
127
116
83
43
106
98
68
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 113 99
1080p Ultra 92 81
1440p Ultra 67 58
4K Ultra 37 32
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
10212
8492
Time Spy 10397 9074
Solar Bay 45002 39675
Port Royal 5819 5194
Fire Strike 26481 23208
Wild Life Extreme 19820 18257
Night Raid 98330 92357
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 142.7 img/sec 200 img/sec
Face Detection 103.7 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.83 Gpixels/sec 3.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.93 Gpixels/sec 4.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.63 Gpixels/sec 4.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.27 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 430.4 Gpixels/sec 452 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13519.5 FPS 11141.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
10306
5899

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
17346
16057
G2D Mark 731 816
DirectX 11 155 FPS 130 FPS
DirectX 12 72 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 6789 Ops/s 6376 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]22366 & 16971 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3297.26
2196.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10]4269 & 932 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)GeekBench115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)GeekBench101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)GeekBench107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306
GeForce RTX 2070
No benchmark results yet

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
17683
12633
GB6 ML Half Precision
30738
20355
GB6 ML Quantized
13612
8999
Image Classification (SP) 7421 5244
Image Segmentation (HP) 19041 9644
Image Super Resolution (Q) 20913 13716
Face Detection (HP) 35464 21326
Pose Estimation (Q) 67110 57284
Text Classification (SP) 3086 1857
Machine Translation (HP) 4740 2542
Object Detection (SP) 8644 6466
Depth Estimation (Q) 32456 22978
Style Transfer (SP) 142039 111896
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop and RTX 2070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 October 17, 2018
Launch price (MSRP) - $599
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD107 (GN21-X4) TU106
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 9700K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#42nd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1140-2295 MHz (configurable) 1410 MHz
Boost Clock 1470-2370 MHz (configurable) 1620 MHz
Shading Units 3072 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 96 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 24 36
Tensor Cores 96 288
Ray-tracing Cores 24 36
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 64KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 71-114 GPixel/s 104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 141-228 GTexel/s 233 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
9-14.6 TFLOPS
7.5 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 175 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 156 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 18.9 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 121.15 MTr/mm² 22.47 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
RTX 2070 +75%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 7.5
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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