GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs 2080 SUPER

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 3 years and 8 months older RTX 2080 SUPER that utilizes 48 pipelines and 3072 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 2080 SUPER over RTX 4070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • 79% higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 11.2 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 8% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 75 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 50% more shading units (4608 vs 3072)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
  • Features 240 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 94% higher memory bandwidth: 495.9 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
134
85
72
51
The Witcher 3
164
129
95
53
148
123
90
50
Counter-Strike 2
236
183
130
71
223
169
122
64
Far Cry 6
121
109
87
51
115
103
82
47
Hogwarts Legacy
91
77
60
28
87
69
53
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
111
105
77
51
108
97
69
45
Ghost of Tsushima
85
69
53
29
77
64
48
28
Cyberpunk 2077
99
84
53
25
89
82
49
24
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
147
137
100
53
140
130
94
48
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 133 125
1080p Ultra 109 102
1440p Ultra 81 75
4K Ultra 46 43
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
Time Spy 12514 11621
Solar Bay 54815 52087
Port Royal 7416 7001
Fire Strike 30057 28789
Wild Life Extreme 23262 23794
Night Raid 113672 108237
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
122905
Background Blur 158.5 img/sec 197.1 img/sec
Face Detection 116.5 img/sec 110.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.35 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.67 Gpixels/sec 6.5 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 7.05 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.28 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 528.5 Gpixels/sec 576.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16372.3 FPS 15732.9 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 766 917
DirectX 11 177 FPS 168 FPS
DirectX 12 85 FPS 75 FPS
GPU Compute 8365 Ops/s 8159 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 13217 & 9968 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3584.78
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2204 & 643 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35869
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
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
GB6 ML Half Precision
34404
GB6 ML Quantized
16559
Image Classification (SP) 8642 6780
Image Segmentation (HP) 20635 15029
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26378 15410
Face Detection (HP) 39776 30849
Pose Estimation (Q) 105983 71857
Text Classification (SP) 2995 1983
Machine Translation (HP) 4507 3417
Object Detection (SP) 10198 8214
Depth Estimation (Q) 41078 26815
Style Transfer (SP) 190315 148497
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop and 2080 SUPER

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 July 23, 2019
Launch price (MSRP) - $699
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Turing
GPU Codename AD106 (GN21-X6) TU104
Successor - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i9 9900K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#23rd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#48th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-2070 MHz (configurable) 1650 MHz
Boost Clock 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) 1815 MHz
Shading Units 4608 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 192
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 48
Tensor Cores 144 384
Ray-tracing Cores 36 48
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 116 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 177-313 GTexel/s 348 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
11.3-20 TFLOPS
11.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 250 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 12 nm
Die Size 186 mm² 545 mm²
Transistor Count 22.9 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 123.12 MTr/mm² 23.85 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1937 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 15500 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
495.9 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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