GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs 4060 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older RTX 4060 Mobile that utilizes 24 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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 Mobile over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 37%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 59% higher maximum theoretical performance (23.2 vs 14.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 67 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
120
77
66
44
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
141
112
79
42
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
205
153
110
54
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
103
92
75
43
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
74
62
45
25
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
95
85
59
37
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
74
60
42
23
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
82
72
42
21
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
127
116
83
43
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 113
1080p Ultra 117 92
1440p Ultra 88 67
4K Ultra 51 37
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 10397
Solar Bay 60191 45002
Port Royal 8718 5819
Fire Strike 35708 26481
Wild Life Extreme 24700 19820
Night Raid 124794 98330
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 142.7 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 103.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 3.83 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 4.93 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 4.63 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 1.27 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 430.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 13519.5 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
19106
G2D Mark 895 731
DirectX 11 185 FPS 155 FPS
DirectX 12 91 FPS 72 FPS
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s 6789 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3607 & 22366 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4005.43
3293.54
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 4321 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 RTX 4060 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Geekbench 6 OpenCL115610
📘 2026-09-04 (Viru)Cinebench 202410216
📘 2026-02-21 (Бенкдикт)Geekbench 6 OpenCL101184
📘 2025-12-18 (AmirtheX)Geekbench 6 OpenCL107583
📘 2025-11-17 (kritan)Cinebench 202410306

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
22022
GB6 ML Half Precision
40929
GB6 ML Quantized
17069
Image Classification (SP) 8984 7421
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 19041
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 20913
Face Detection (HP) 48283 35464
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 67110
Text Classification (SP) 3260 3086
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 4740
Object Detection (SP) 11172 8644
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 32456
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 142039
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and 4060 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB206-300 AD107 (GN21-X4)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (16th and 43rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 1140-2295 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 1470-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 4608 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 24
Tensor Cores 144 96
Ray-tracing Cores 36 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 71-114 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 141-228 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS
9-14.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 181 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
384 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.0 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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