GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop vs 4070 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 24 GB with 82 pipelines and 10496 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older 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

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 4070 Mobile over RTX 5090 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.1x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.3x higher maximum theoretical performance (45.3 vs 20 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 68% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 136 vs 81 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
212
149
140
111
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
225
201
143
75
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
293
222
162
84
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
167
153
134
83
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
151
120
97
55
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
196
190
149
101
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
135
114
96
63
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
177
153
110
51
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
273
257
194
104
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 203 133
1080p Ultra 173 109
1440p Ultra 136 81
4K Ultra 81 46
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
26169
Time Spy 25015 12514
Solar Bay 115087 54815
Port Royal 16530 7416
Fire Strike 51145 30057
Wild Life Extreme 47290 23262
Night Raid 177560 113672
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
226752
Background Blur 266.5 img/sec 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 196.9 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 10.6 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 15.2 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 14.4 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.89 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1150 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 29783 FPS 16372.3 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
28281
G2D Mark 1101 766
DirectX 11 266 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 136 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 11314 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1355 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
8001.96
3585.95
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 75 & 2189 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35869

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
30250
GB6 ML Half Precision
52126
GB6 ML Quantized
23496
Image Classification (SP) 12121 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 33054 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 33652 26378
Face Detection (HP) 67213 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 151395 105983
Text Classification (SP) 3209 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 6292 4507
Object Detection (SP) 15618 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 57894 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 272117 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop and 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 6, 2025 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB203-400 AD106 (GN21-X6)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (1st and 23rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 990-1515 MHz (configurable) 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1515-2160 MHz (configurable) 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 10496 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 328 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 112 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 82 36
Tensor Cores 328 144
Ray-tracing Cores 82 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 170-242 GPixel/s 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 497-708 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
31.8-45.3 TFLOPS
11.3-20 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 95-175 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 378 mm² 186 mm²
Transistor Count 45.6 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 120.63 MTr/mm² 123.12 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
896 GB/s
256 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 10.1 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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