NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile: specs and benchmarks
- Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
- Core clock speed 780 - 1100
- Max video memory 8192 MB
- Memory type GDDR6
- Memory clock speed 14000
- Maximum resolution
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile sales 4 January 2021. This is high-end Ampere architecture notebook card based on 8 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 115 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
General info
Of GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 68 | |
| Architecture | Ampere | |
| GPU code name | GN20-E5 GA104 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 4 January 2021 (less than a year ago) |
Technical specs
GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 5120 | of 15360 (Radeon RX 7900 XT) |
| Core clock speed | 780 - 1100 MHz | of 2233 (Playstation 5 GPU) |
| Boost clock speed | 1290 - 1620 MHz | of 2903 (Radeon Pro W6600) |
| Number of transistors | 17,400 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 8 nm | of 5 (Apple M1 GPU) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 115 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 287.0 | of 779.2 (Radeon RX 6900 XTX) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large | |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 14000 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
| Memory bandwidth | 320.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.5 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | |
| CUDA | 8.5 |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
- 3DMark Fire Strike Score
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
- 3DMark Ice Storm GPU
- Passmark
Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:
| 1080p | 115 | |
| 1440p | 80 | |
| 4K | 53 |
1920x1080
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 91 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 86 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 116 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 104 | |
| Hitman 3 | 148 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 93 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 108 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 121 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 74 |
1920x1080
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 76 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 134 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 73 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 111 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 100 | |
| Hitman 3 | 138 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 84 | |
| Metro Exodus | 75 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 66 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 111 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 166 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 68 |
1920x1080
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 68 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 126 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 62 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 105 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 89 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 92 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 60 |
2560x1440
High Preset
| Hitman 3 | 98 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 63 | |
| Metro Exodus | 53 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 38 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 65 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 31 |
2560x1440
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 53 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 102 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 39 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 90 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 84 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 49 |
3840x2160
High Preset
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 34 | |
| Metro Exodus | 33 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 36 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 63 |
3840x2160
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 33 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 63 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 18 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 50 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 52 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 29 |
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile from AMD is Radeon RX 6700M, which is slower by 18% and lower by 36 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.