GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
Custom
We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 2 years and 3 months newer Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) that utilizes 1280 pipelines and 10240 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Some GPUs come in different configurations. For greater precision, pick a specific config below
Please note that the tests on the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
- Includes 8 GB of dedicated GDDR6 memory
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
- Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
- 61% higher maximum theoretical performance (32.3 vs 20 TFLOPS)
- Achieves 90% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (218K vs 115K)
- Has 2.2x more shading units (10240 vs 4608)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 139 89 77 56 |
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| The Witcher 3 | 164 129 95 53 |
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| Counter-Strike 2 | 236 183 130 71 |
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| Far Cry 6 | 121 109 87 51 |
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| Hogwarts Legacy | 91 77 60 28 |
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| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 111 105 77 51 |
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| Ghost of Tsushima | 85 69 53 29 |
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| Cyberpunk 2077 | 99 84 53 25 |
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| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 147 137 100 53 |
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| 1080p High | 133 | - |
| 1080p Ultra | 109 | - |
| 1440p Ultra | 81 | - |
| 4K Ultra | 46 | - |
| Margin of Error | Low | High |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12514 | - |
| Solar Bay | 54815 | - |
| Port Royal | 7416 | - |
| Fire Strike | 30057 | - |
| Wild Life Extreme | 23262 | - |
| Night Raid | 113672 | - |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 158.5 img/sec | - |
| Face Detection | 116.5 img/sec | - |
| Horizon Detection | 4.35 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Edge Detection | 5.67 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Gaussian Blur | 6.44 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Feature Matching | 1.36 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Stereo Matching | 528.5 Gpixels/sec | - |
| Particle Physics | 16372.3 FPS | - |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 766 | - |
| DirectX 11 | 177 FPS | - |
| DirectX 12 | 85 FPS | - |
| GPU Compute | 8365 Ops/s | - |
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 122515 |
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35869 |
Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)
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) | 8642 | - |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 20635 | - |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 26378 | - |
| Face Detection (HP) | 39776 | - |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 105983 | - |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2995 | - |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4507 | - |
| Object Detection (SP) | 10198 | - |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 41078 | - |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 190315 | - |
| Framework | ONNX | - |
| Backend | DirectML | - |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop and Apple M4 Ultra GPU (80-core)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Apple |
| Build | Discrete | Integrated |
| Released | February 22, 2023 | May 1, 2025 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Professional |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | AD106 (GN21-X6) | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce RTX 5080 |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above | - Apple M4 Ultra or above |
| Used in CPUs | - | - Apple M4 Ultra |
Laptop GPU ranking (#23rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) | 1578 MHz |
| Shading Units | 4608 | 10240 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 144 | 640 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 48 | 320 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 36 | 1280 |
| Tensor Cores | 144 | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 36 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 32MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 59-104 GPixel/s | 505 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 177-313 GTexel/s | 1010 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | 35-140 W (configurable) | 120 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| Die Size | 186 mm² | - |
| Transistor Count | 22.9 billion | - |
| Transistor Density | 123.12 MTr/mm² | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | System Shared |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | - |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 8533 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | - |
| Bus | 128-bit | 1024-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | - |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | - |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | - |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | - |
| CUDA | 8.9 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | No |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | - |
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