Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada vs GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada 16 GB with 22 pipelines and 2816 shaders against the 1 year and 2 months newer GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
16 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6X
23.1
(Mediocre)
Value Index
40.8
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 over RTX 2000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
  • 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (29.1 vs 12 TFLOPS)
  • Features 96 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 504 vs 256 GB/s
  • Achieves 87% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 89K)
  • Has 2.1x more shading units (5888 vs 2816)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
172
115
102
79
The Witcher 3 -
194
159
114
61
Counter-Strike 2 -
272
205
149
81
Far Cry 6 -
149
133
115
68
Hogwarts Legacy -
117
97
77
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
149
145
107
69
Ghost of Tsushima -
106
88
72
43
Cyberpunk 2077 -
129
119
75
37
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
211
190
145
80
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 167
1080p Ultra - 139
1440p Ultra - 106
4K Ultra - 62
Margin of Error High 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 - 17799
Solar Bay - 82861
Port Royal - 11156
Fire Strike - 44067
Wild Life Extreme - 35472
Night Raid - 153385
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
89677
RTX 4070 +87%
167522
Background Blur 170.5 img/sec 233 img/sec
Face Detection 102.8 img/sec 141.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.25 Gpixels/sec 6.62 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 9.19 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 4.06 Gpixels/sec 9.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.13 Gpixels/sec 1.78 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 353.4 Gpixels/sec 845.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 12273.1 FPS 25043.9 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
16935
RTX 4070 +59%
26856
G2D Mark 1073 1165
DirectX 11 138 FPS 243 FPS
DirectX 12 71 FPS 103 FPS
GPU Compute 7810 Ops/s 14561 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 1055 & 20710 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2687.32
RTX 4070 +100%
5387.27
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 59 & 3020 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-14 (kashitsu)Cinebench 202418051

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
15501
RTX 4070 +75%
27166
GB6 ML Half Precision
27554
RTX 4070 +49%
40963
GB6 ML Quantized
12117
RTX 4070 +68%
20332
Image Classification (SP) 6382 10246
Image Segmentation (HP) 16489 26153
Image Super Resolution (Q) 17694 32054
Face Detection (HP) 32453 51337
Pose Estimation (Q) 56937 124617
Text Classification (SP) 3097 3703
Machine Translation (HP) 4324 5484
Object Detection (SP) 7656 13134
Depth Estimation (Q) 29700 50548
Style Transfer (SP) 116441 263477
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada and GeForce RTX 4070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 12, 2022 April 13, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $649 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD107 AD104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7900 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 14700K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (46th and 30th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1620 MHz 1920 MHz
Boost Clock 2130 MHz 2475 MHz
Shading Units 2816 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 88 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 22 46
Tensor Cores 88 184
Ray-tracing Cores 22 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 12MB shared 36MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 102 GPixel/s 158 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 187 GTexel/s 455 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
12 TFLOPS
RTX 4070 +143%
29.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 70 W 200 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 159 mm² 294 mm²
Transistor Count 18 billion 35 billion
Transistor Density 113.21 MTr/mm² 119.05 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
256 GB/s
RTX 4070 +97%
504 GB/s

API

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

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