GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q sales 3 January 2023. This is a laptop graphics card based on an Ada Lovelace architecture and made with 5 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via PCIe 4.0 x8 interface. Power consumption is at 35 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) | |
| GPU code name | AD106 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 3 January 2023 (2 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4608 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 735 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Boost clock speed | 1230 MHz | of 1000 (HD Graphics (Haswell)) |
| Number of transistors | 22,900 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 5 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 35 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 177.1 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 11.34 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 48 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 144 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Tensor Cores | 144 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 36 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| L1 Cache | 4.5 MB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 32 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 2000 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 256.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Portable Device Dependent |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | |
| CUDA | 8.9 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q is Radeon 8050S.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q according to our statistics.
