GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop vs 4090 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Mobile 12 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older RTX 4090 Mobile 16 GB that utilizes 76 pipelines and 9728 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 4090 Mobile over RTX 5070 Ti Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Has 31% higher memory bandwidth: 672 vs 512 GB/s
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 23%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 48% higher maximum theoretical performance (39.7 vs 26.8 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 16% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 123 vs 106 FPS
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Features 120 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 22% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (203K vs 166K)
  • Has 65% more shading units (9728 vs 5888)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
168
112
102
77
188
131
122
92
The Witcher 3
191
162
116
62
211
176
132
67
Counter-Strike 2
273
202
144
80
277
217
158
82
Far Cry 6
146
133
114
71
160
144
125
79
Hogwarts Legacy
118
94
74
40
137
111
86
47
CoD: Modern Warfare III
150
139
107
70
177
165
132
84
Ghost of Tsushima
105
89
73
43
122
102
86
52
Cyberpunk 2077
129
117
76
37
151
135
93
44
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
211
190
147
80
250
235
175
96
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 166 186
1080p Ultra 138 157
1440p Ultra 106 123
4K Ultra 62 71
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
Time Spy 17376 21388
Solar Bay 78498 96121
Port Royal 11401 13734
Fire Strike 42353 45207
Wild Life Extreme 33661 42501
Night Raid 154057 147911
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
203263
Background Blur 248 img/sec 264 img/sec
Face Detection 147.7 img/sec 134.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.54 Gpixels/sec 9.27 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.24 Gpixels/sec 12.7 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.55 Gpixels/sec 13.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.64 Gpixels/sec 1.92 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 876 Gpixels/sec 1060 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 24026.1 FPS 29225.1 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 968 988
DirectX 11 235 FPS 257 FPS
DirectX 12 100 FPS 106 FPS
GPU Compute 8295 Ops/s 12157 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]3123 & 3224 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
7032.52
Sources: Blender [9], [10]456 & 1065 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-12 (mahmut)Steel Nomad Light3874
📘 2026-05-04 -> lnwponlawatGeekBench185432
📘 2026-05-04 -> lnwponlawatSteel Nomad Light19141
GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-09 (Horikita)GeekBench213782
📘 2025-11-03 (JJ)Cinebench 202423277
📘 2025-11-03 (JJ)Cinebench 202422714

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) 10408 11346
Image Segmentation (HP) 29018 24625
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26983 36874
Face Detection (HP) 54398 50088
Pose Estimation (Q) 107270 174844
Text Classification (SP) 3658 3226
Machine Translation (HP) 6237 4905
Object Detection (SP) 13717 14667
Depth Estimation (Q) 49509 53868
Style Transfer (SP) 199816 340056
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop and 4090 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 February 8, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB205-200 AD103 (GN21-X11)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (7th and 4th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 847-1762 MHz (configurable) 930-1620 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1447-2280 MHz (configurable) 1455-2040 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 5888 9728
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 304
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 112
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 76
Tensor Cores 184 304
Ray-tracing Cores 46 76
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 64MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 116-182 GPixel/s 163-228 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 266-420 GTexel/s 442-620 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
17-26.8 TFLOPS
28.3-39.7 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 60-140 W (configurable) 80-175 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 263 mm² 379 mm²
Transistor Count 31.1 billion 45.9 billion
Transistor Density 118.25 MTr/mm² 121.11 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
672 GB/s
512 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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