GeForce RTX 5070 vs 4060 Ti 8GB

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5070 12 GB with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older RTX 4060 Ti 8GB 8 GB that utilizes 34 pipelines and 4352 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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
12 GB GDDR7
VS
8 GB GDDR6
93.4
(Very good)
Value Index
45.1
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 Ti 8GB over RTX 5070
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 71%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 49% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 128 vs 86 FPS
  • 40% higher maximum theoretical performance (30.9 vs 22.1 TFLOPS)
  • 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
197
140
130
97
150
97
84
61
The Witcher 3
216
183
131
71
167
137
98
52
Counter-Strike 2
293
210
160
81
239
187
136
76
Far Cry 6
164
145
128
82
129
119
95
54
Hogwarts Legacy
140
117
92
51
97
80
59
34
CoD: Modern Warfare III
178
171
136
89
121
112
80
53
Ghost of Tsushima
123
107
89
58
86
74
56
33
Cyberpunk 2077
164
144
99
43
102
91
57
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
253
238
189
98
164
146
109
58
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 192 139
1080p Ultra 162 116
1440p Ultra 128 86
4K Ultra 74 50
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 5070 +71%
23223
Time Spy 22708 13479
Solar Bay 107004 62428
Port Royal 14498 8103
Fire Strike 58324 34401
Wild Life Extreme 43879 25599
Night Raid 172064 136255
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 5070 +49%
190967
Background Blur 254.4 img/sec 198.3 img/sec
Face Detection 180.6 img/sec 126.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 7.91 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 10.2 Gpixels/sec 5.69 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10.7 Gpixels/sec 6.72 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.84 Gpixels/sec 1.53 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 975.7 Gpixels/sec 656.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 27816.5 FPS 19149.2 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 5070 +27%
28651
G2D Mark 1289 1094
DirectX 11 279 FPS 202 FPS
DirectX 12 106 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 14323 Ops/s 12003 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 23210 & 15714 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9] – 1904 samples

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 5070 +37%
30221
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 5070 +46%
53037
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 5070 +35%
23474
Image Classification (SP) 12270 9359
Image Segmentation (HP) 30237 21463
Image Super Resolution (Q) 35585 26023
Face Detection (HP) 62662 42533
Pose Estimation (Q) 145190 99698
Text Classification (SP) 4198 3181
Machine Translation (HP) 6233 4956
Object Detection (SP) 16709 11009
Depth Estimation (Q) 58300 43518
Style Transfer (SP) 246598 203667
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 and 4060 Ti 8GB

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $399
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB205-300 AD106
Rival Equivalent - Radeon RX 9070 - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (21st and 43rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 2160 MHz 2310 MHz
Boost Clock 2512 MHz 2535 MHz
Shading Units 6144 4352
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 136
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 34
Tensor Cores 192 136
Ray-tracing Cores 48 34
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 48MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 201 GPixel/s 122 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 482 GTexel/s 345 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 5070 +40%
30.9 TFLOPS
22.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 250 W 160 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 263 mm² 188 mm²
Transistor Count 31.1 billion 22 billion
Transistor Density 118.25 MTr/mm² 117.02 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 5070 +133%
672 GB/s
288 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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