GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs RTX 2070

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 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 4070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 50%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.7x higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 7.5 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 58 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 2x more shading units (4608 vs 2304)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2070
  • Features 144 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
139
89
77
56
109
70
56
40
The Witcher 3
164
129
95
53
124
100
73
38
Counter-Strike 2
236
183
130
71
181
132
96
48
Far Cry 6
121
109
87
51
92
83
64
34
Hogwarts Legacy
91
77
60
28
65
56
41
19
CoD: Modern Warfare III
111
105
77
51
79
74
50
34
Ghost of Tsushima
85
69
53
29
64
50
36
20
Cyberpunk 2077
99
84
53
25
67
63
35
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
147
137
100
53
106
98
68
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 133 99
1080p Ultra 109 81
1440p Ultra 81 58
4K Ultra 46 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
12736
8492
Time Spy 12514 9074
Solar Bay 54815 39675
Port Royal 7416 5194
Fire Strike 30057 23208
Wild Life Extreme 23262 18257
Night Raid 113672 92357
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
115081
97923
Background Blur 158.5 img/sec 200 img/sec
Face Detection 116.5 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.35 Gpixels/sec 3.73 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.67 Gpixels/sec 4.57 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 4.84 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.07 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 528.5 Gpixels/sec 452 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16372.3 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
10642
5899

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
19482
16057
G2D Mark 766 816
DirectX 11 177 FPS 130 FPS
DirectX 12 85 FPS 61 FPS
GPU Compute 8365 Ops/s 6376 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]13217 & 16971 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3585.95
2196.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10]2189 & 932 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)GeekBench35869
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
21186
12633
GB6 ML Half Precision
34404
20355
GB6 ML Quantized
16559
8999
Image Classification (SP) 8642 5244
Image Segmentation (HP) 20635 9644
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26378 13716
Face Detection (HP) 39776 21326
Pose Estimation (Q) 105983 57284
Text Classification (SP) 2995 1857
Machine Translation (HP) 4507 2542
Object Detection (SP) 10198 6466
Depth Estimation (Q) 41078 22978
Style Transfer (SP) 190315 111896
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4070 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 High-end Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD106 (GN21-X6) TU106
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 5700 XT
Successor - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 9700K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#22nd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#63rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-2070 MHz (configurable) 1410 MHz
Boost Clock 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) 1620 MHz
Shading Units 4608 2304
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 36
Tensor Cores 144 288
Ray-tracing Cores 36 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 59-104 GPixel/s 104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 177-313 GTexel/s 233 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
11.3-20 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 186 mm² 445 mm²
Transistor Count 22.9 billion 10 billion
Transistor Density 123.12 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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