GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs GTX 1070 Mobile

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 8 years and 6 months older GTX 1070 Mobile that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of GTX 1070 Laptop over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 3.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (23.2 vs 6.7 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.4x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 36 FPS
  • Ray-tracing support with 36 dedicated RT cores

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
84
51
38
24
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
78
59
41
20
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
126
88
60
26
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
65
61
43
23
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
43
35
25
14
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
53
41
31
21
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
37
31
24
12
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
43
39
20
10
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
72
65
44
21
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 67
1080p Ultra 117 52
1440p Ultra 88 36
4K Ultra 51 19
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
13949
Time Spy 13620 5540
Solar Bay 60191 14715
Port Royal 8718 1208
Fire Strike 35708 17004
Wild Life Extreme 24700 11406
Night Raid 124794 56791
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
134209
Background Blur 213.4 img/sec 134.6 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 61.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 1.98 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 3.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 3.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 0.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 159.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 4611.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
19106
G2D Mark 895 603
DirectX 11 185 FPS 92 FPS
DirectX 12 91 FPS 34 FPS
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s 4591 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3607 & 642 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4005.43
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 24 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Levi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141514
📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL131880
GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 8984 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 -
Face Detection (HP) 48283 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 -
Text Classification (SP) 3260 -
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 -
Object Detection (SP) 11172 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 -
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and GTX 1070 Mobile

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 August 15, 2016
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Pascal
GPU Codename GB206-300 GP104
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core i7 8750H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (16th and 110th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 1442 MHz
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 1645 MHz
Shading Units 4608 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 16
Tensor Cores 144 No
Ray-tracing Cores 36 No
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 48KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 105 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 211 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS
6.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 120 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 16 nm
Die Size 181 mm² 314 mm²
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 7.2 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 22.93 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR5
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2002 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 8008 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
384 GB/s
256.3 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 1.2
CUDA 12.0 6.1
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort 2.1b -

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