GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop vs 4070 Laptop
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
AD103 (GN21-X11)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 16 GB with 76 pipelines and 9728 shaders against the RTX 4070 Mobile 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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Review
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
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
- Performs significantly better (up to 77%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (39.7 vs 20 TFLOPS)
- Shows 52% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 123 vs 81 FPS
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Features 160 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 256 GB/s
- Achieves 77% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (203K vs 115K)
- Has 2.1x more shading units (9728 vs 4608)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 188 131 122 92 |
139 89 77 56 |
| The Witcher 3 | 211 176 132 67 |
164 129 95 53 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 277 217 158 82 |
236 183 130 71 |
| Far Cry 6 | 160 144 125 79 |
121 109 87 51 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 137 111 86 47 |
91 77 60 28 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 177 165 132 84 |
111 105 77 51 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 122 102 86 52 |
85 69 53 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 151 135 93 44 |
99 84 53 25 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 250 235 175 96 |
147 137 100 53 |
| 1080p High | 186 | 133 |
| 1080p Ultra | 157 | 109 |
| 1440p Ultra | 123 | 81 |
| 4K Ultra | 71 | 46 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 21388 | 12514 |
| Solar Bay | 96121 | 54815 |
| Port Royal | 13734 | 7416 |
| Fire Strike | 45207 | 30057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 42501 | 23262 |
| Night Raid | 147911 | 113672 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 264 img/sec | 158.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 134.3 img/sec | 116.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 9.27 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 12.7 Gpixels/sec | 5.67 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 13.2 Gpixels/sec | 6.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.92 Gpixels/sec | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 1060 Gpixels/sec | 528.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 29225.1 FPS | 16372.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 988 | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 257 FPS | 177 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 106 FPS | 85 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 12157 Ops/s | 8365 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-09 (Horikita) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 213782 |
| 📘 2025-11-03 (JJ) | Cinebench 2024 | 23277 |
| 📘 2025-11-03 (JJ) | Cinebench 2024 | 22714 |
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 122515 |
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35869 |
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) | 11346 | 8642 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 24625 | 20635 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 36874 | 26378 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 50088 | 39776 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 174844 | 105983 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3226 | 2995 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4905 | 4507 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 14667 | 10198 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 53868 | 41078 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 340056 | 190315 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop and 4070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | February 8, 2023 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | AD103 (GN21-X11) | AD106 (GN21-X6) |
| Successor | - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (4th and 22nd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 930-1620 MHz (configurable) | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1455-2040 MHz (configurable) | 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 9728 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 304 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 112 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 76 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 304 | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 76 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 64MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 163-228 GPixel/s | 59-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 442-620 GTexel/s | 177-313 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-175 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 379 mm² | 186 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 45.9 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 121.11 MTr/mm² | 123.12 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.9 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 3 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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