AMD Radeon RX 7900M vs GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 7900M
Navi 31
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7900M 16 GB with 4608 shaders against the 8 months 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
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 Radeon RX 7900M
- Performs better (up to 35%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 93% higher maximum theoretical performance (38.5 vs 20 TFLOPS)
- Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 106 vs 81 FPS
- Includes 8 GB more video memory
- Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 576 vs 256 GB/s
- Achieves 32% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (151K vs 115K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 194 124 107 77 |
139 89 77 56 |
| The Witcher 3 | 192 169 123 66 |
164 129 95 53 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 283 197 140 79 |
236 183 130 71 |
| Far Cry 6 | 154 139 118 72 |
121 109 87 51 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 114 95 72 38 |
91 77 60 28 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 159 156 111 70 |
111 105 77 51 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 119 99 78 48 |
85 69 53 29 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 123 110 73 33 |
99 84 53 25 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 203 183 135 71 |
147 137 100 53 |
| 1080p High | 171 | 133 |
| 1080p Ultra | 141 | 109 |
| 1440p Ultra | 106 | 81 |
| 4K Ultra | 62 | 46 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 17931 | 12514 |
| Solar Bay | 78139 | 54815 |
| Port Royal | 10135 | 7416 |
| Fire Strike | 41648 | 30057 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 35258 | 23262 |
| Night Raid | 154612 | 113672 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 305.8 img/sec | 158.5 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 201.4 img/sec | 116.5 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 5.87 Gpixels/sec | 4.35 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 8.19 Gpixels/sec | 5.67 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 6.77 Gpixels/sec | 6.44 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.32 Gpixels/sec | 1.36 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 540.4 Gpixels/sec | 528.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 22269 FPS | 16372.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 888 | 766 |
| DirectX 11 | 258 FPS | 177 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 97 FPS | 85 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9066 Ops/s | 8365 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7900M
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) | 11249 | 8642 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 13771 | 20635 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 30143 | 26378 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 31918 | 39776 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 163344 | 105983 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3882 | 2995 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 3734 | 4507 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 12629 | 10198 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 45969 | 41078 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 303544 | 190315 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7900M and GeForce RTX 4070 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | October 19, 2023 | February 22, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | High-end |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 31 | AD106 (GN21-X6) |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i7 13700HX or above | - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above |
Laptop GPU ranking (11th and 23rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1825 MHz | 735-2070 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 2090 MHz | 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 4608 | 4608 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 288 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 192 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 36 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 144 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 72 | 36 |
| L1 Cache | 256KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 6MB shared | 32MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 401 GPixel/s | 59-104 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 602 GTexel/s | 177-313 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 180 W | 35-140 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 529 mm² | 186 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 57.7 billion | 22.9 billion |
| Transistor Density | 109.07 MTr/mm² | 123.12 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 16000 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | - | 1.4a |
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