Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
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Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
GA104
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX A5000 Mobile 16 GB with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 1 year and 10 months newer GeForce 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
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
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Supports error correction code (ECC) memory
- Has 75% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 256 GB/s
- Features 48 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 33% more shading units (6144 vs 4608)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
- Performs better (up to 34%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 62 FPS
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 114 71 62 41 |
139 89 77 56 |
| The Witcher 3 | 132 105 75 43 |
164 129 95 53 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 187 143 102 51 |
236 183 130 71 |
| Far Cry 6 | 100 87 70 39 |
121 109 87 51 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 70 59 44 20 |
91 77 60 28 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 85 79 53 36 |
111 105 77 51 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 66 53 41 25 |
85 69 53 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 74 65 39 17 |
99 84 53 25 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 115 105 74 41 |
147 137 100 53 |
| 1080p High | 105 | 133 |
| 1080p Ultra | 85 | 109 |
| 1440p Ultra | 62 | 81 |
| 4K Ultra | 35 | 46 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9295 | 12514 |
| Solar Bay | 40186 | 54815 |
| Port Royal | 5817 | 7416 |
| Fire Strike | 26200 | 30057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 20653 | 23262 |
| Night Raid | 61009 | 113672 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 172.7 img/sec | 158.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 103.8 img/sec | 116.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.34 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 7.2 Gpixels/sec | 5.67 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.61 Gpixels/sec | 6.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.05 Gpixels/sec | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 474.4 Gpixels/sec | 528.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 14218.2 FPS | 16372.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 663 | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 138 FPS | 177 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 74 FPS | 85 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6941 Ops/s | 8365 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 122515 |
| 📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 35869 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 6590 | 8642 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 12226 | 20635 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 16682 | 26378 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 30795 | 39776 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 71291 | 105983 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2115 | 2995 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3207 | 4507 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 8583 | 10198 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 25256 | 41078 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 149822 | 190315 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX A5000 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Nvidia | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | April 12, 2021 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | GA104 | AD106 (GN21-X6) |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i9 12900HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (38th and 23rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 780-1215 MHz (configurable) | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1245-1770 MHz (configurable) | 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 6144 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 192 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 96 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 48 | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | 192 | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 48 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 120-170 GPixel/s | 59-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 239-340 GTexel/s | 177-313 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 80-165 W (configurable) | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 8 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 392 mm² | 186 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17.4 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 44.39 MTr/mm² | 123.12 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 1750 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 14000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | Yes | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | DLSS 2 | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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