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GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs 3070 Laptop

GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
GA104 (GN20-E5)

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older RTX 3070 Mobile that utilizes 40 pipelines and 5120 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 Mobile over RTX 4070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 25%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Shows 19% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 68 FPS
  • 20% higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 16.6 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
  • Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4070 Laptop
vs
RTX 3070 Laptop

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
139
89
77
56
124
78
67
49
The Witcher 3
164
129
95
53
137
112
82
43
Counter-Strike 2
236
183
130
71
199
149
109
57
Far Cry 6
121
109
87
51
107
96
75
41
Hogwarts Legacy
91
77
60
28
78
65
47
24
CoD: Modern Warfare III
111
105
77
51
93
84
59
42
Ghost of Tsushima
85
69
53
29
73
58
45
24
Cyberpunk 2077
99
84
53
25
80
71
44
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
147
137
100
53
127
114
84
44
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 133 113
1080p Ultra 109 92
1440p Ultra 81 68
4K Ultra 46 38
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
RTX 4070 Laptop +25%
12736
RTX 3070 Laptop
10216
Time Spy 12514 10477
Solar Bay 54815 45198
Port Royal 7416 6247
Fire Strike 30057 26725
Wild Life Extreme 23262 21132
Night Raid 113672 82499
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4070 Laptop
115081
RTX 3070 Laptop +3%
118499
Background Blur 158.5 img/sec 170.3 img/sec
Face Detection 116.5 img/sec 113.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.35 Gpixels/sec 5.59 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.67 Gpixels/sec 7.94 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 6.19 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.16 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 528.5 Gpixels/sec 467 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16372.3 FPS 15131.3 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
RTX 4070 Laptop +30%
19482
RTX 3070 Laptop
15017
G2D Mark 766 626
DirectX 11 177 FPS 137 FPS
DirectX 12 85 FPS 62 FPS
GPU Compute 8365 Ops/s 6642 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 13217 & 8902 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4070 Laptop +21%
3584.78
RTX 3070 Laptop
2973.81
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2204 & 1893 samples
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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
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GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL123169
📘 2026-06-30 (peppew517)Cinebench 202410455
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122261
📘 2026-06-25 (peppew517)Steel Nomad Light12032
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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
RTX 4070 Laptop +23%
21186
RTX 3070 Laptop
17250
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4070 Laptop +23%
34404
RTX 3070 Laptop
27936
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4070 Laptop +47%
16559
RTX 3070 Laptop
11249
Image Classification (SP) 8642 6969
Image Segmentation (HP) 20635 17142
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26378 16426
Face Detection (HP) 39776 31628
Pose Estimation (Q) 105983 74413
Text Classification (SP) 2995 2522
Machine Translation (HP) 4507 3639
Object Detection (SP) 10198 9002
Depth Estimation (Q) 41078 27790
Style Transfer (SP) 190315 160005
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop and 3070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 12, 2021
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD106 (GN21-X6) GA104 (GN20-E5)
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 6700M
Successor - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i7 12700H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (23rd and 50th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-2070 MHz (configurable) 780-1215 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) 1290-1620 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 4608 5120
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 160
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 80
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 40
Tensor Cores 144 160
Ray-tracing Cores 36 40
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 59-104 GPixel/s 103-130 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 177-313 GTexel/s 206-259 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4070 Laptop +20%
11.3-20 TFLOPS
RTX 3070 Laptop
13.2-16.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 80-150 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 186 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 22.9 billion 17.4 billion
Transistor Density 123.12 MTr/mm² 44.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1500-1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 12000-14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4070 Laptop
256 GB/s
RTX 3070 Laptop +75%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.2
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 2.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

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