Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell) 12 GB with 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older 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

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 Pro 3000 Mobile (Blackwell)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
  • 43% higher maximum theoretical performance (28.6 vs 20 TFLOPS)
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Has 2.6x higher memory bandwidth: 672 vs 256 GB/s
  • Achieves 46% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 115K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 28% more shading units (5888 vs 4608)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
137
87
76
56
139
89
77
56
The Witcher 3
154
130
93
50
164
129
95
53
Counter-Strike 2
224
173
126
67
236
183
130
71
Far Cry 6
121
107
88
49
121
109
87
51
Hogwarts Legacy
88
73
56
29
91
77
60
28
CoD: Modern Warfare III
111
104
74
46
111
105
77
51
Ghost of Tsushima
85
70
50
30
85
69
53
29
Cyberpunk 2077
96
86
51
24
99
84
53
25
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
146
133
100
51
147
137
100
53
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 129 133
1080p Ultra 107 109
1440p Ultra 79 81
4K Ultra 45 46
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 12518 12514
Solar Bay 66557 54815
Port Royal 10955 7416
Fire Strike 32060 30057
Wild Life Extreme - 23262
Night Raid - 113672
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur 238.8 img/sec 158.5 img/sec
Face Detection 147.6 img/sec 116.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.73 Gpixels/sec 4.35 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.27 Gpixels/sec 5.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 10.7 Gpixels/sec 6.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.68 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 778.4 Gpixels/sec 528.5 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23023.5 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
G2D Mark 826 766
DirectX 11 212 FPS 177 FPS
DirectX 12 94 FPS 85 FPS
GPU Compute 7266 Ops/s 8365 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 326 & 13217 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 27 & 2204 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell)
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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 9790 8642
Image Segmentation (HP) 28672 20635
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26553 26378
Face Detection (HP) 53161 39776
Pose Estimation (Q) 120306 105983
Text Classification (SP) 3406 2995
Machine Translation (HP) 5910 4507
Object Detection (SP) 12573 10198
Depth Estimation (Q) 47957 41078
Style Transfer (SP) 199379 190315
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX Pro 3000 Laptop (Blackwell) and GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released March 18, 2025 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB205-300-A1 AD106 (GN21-X6)
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (13th and 23rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 848-1605 MHz (configurable) 735-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1605-2430 MHz (configurable) 1230-2175 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 5888 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 184 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 80 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 46 36
Tensor Cores 184 144
Ray-tracing Cores 46 36
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 128-194 GPixel/s 59-104 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 295-447 GTexel/s 177-313 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
18.9-28.6 TFLOPS
11.3-20 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 60-140 W (configurable) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 263 mm² 186 mm²
Transistor Count 31.1 billion 22.9 billion
Transistor Density 118.25 MTr/mm² 123.12 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 28000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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