NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 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 16 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via PCIe 4.0 x16 interface. Power consumption is at 115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP).

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 45.53% of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

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General info

Some basic facts about GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking67
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
GPU code nameGN21-X6
Market segmentLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year old)

Technical specs

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4608of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Core clock speed1605 MHzof 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Boost clock speed2175 MHzof 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Manufacturing process technology5 nmof 4 (GeForce RTX 4080)
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate244.1of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce RTX 4070 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 sizelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GBof 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB)
Memory clock speed16000 MHzof 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/sof 3276 (Aldebaran)
Shared memory-

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent

API support

APIs supported by GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.7
OpenGL4.6
OpenCL3.0
Vulkan1.3
CUDA8.9

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. 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.

RTX 4070 Mobile 45.53

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 4070 Mobile 97154

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

RTX 4070 Mobile 40933

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

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 made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 4070 Mobile 29860

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

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.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

RTX 4070 Mobile 161738

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

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.

Benchmark coverage: 8%

RTX 4070 Mobile 612986

Gaming performance

Let's see how good GeForce RTX 4070 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.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD136
1440p82
4K49

Performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 133

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 75−80
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 75−80
Battlefield 5 120−130
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 116
Far Cry 5 157
Far Cry New Dawn 140
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
Hitman 3 234
Horizon Zero Dawn 95−100
Red Dead Redemption 2 70−75
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 163
Watch Dogs: Legion 80−85

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 75−80
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 75−80
Battlefield 5 120−130
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 98
Far Cry 5 143
Far Cry New Dawn 135
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
Hitman 3 203
Horizon Zero Dawn 135
Metro Exodus 113
Red Dead Redemption 2 70−75
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 159
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 227
Watch Dogs: Legion 130

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 75−80
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 101
Battlefield 5 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 87
Far Cry 5 132
Far Cry New Dawn 120
Forza Horizon 4 130−140
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 114
Watch Dogs: Legion 89

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 75−80
Hitman 3 130
Horizon Zero Dawn 98
Metro Exodus 69
Red Dead Redemption 2 35−40
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 104

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 50−55
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 75
Battlefield 5 90−95
Cyberpunk 2077 54
Far Cry 5 113
Far Cry New Dawn 105
Forza Horizon 4 95−100
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 82
Watch Dogs: Legion 64

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 40−45
Hitman 3 69
Horizon Zero Dawn 26
Metro Exodus 45
Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 53
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 70

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 30−35
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 42
Battlefield 5 55−60
Cyberpunk 2077 23
Far Cry 5 61
Far Cry New Dawn 45−50
Forza Horizon 4 65−70
Watch Dogs: Legion 33

Relative perfomance

Overall GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.


AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is Radeon RX 6850M XT, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

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Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile:

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 100

Similar GPUs

Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended processors

These processors are most commonly used with GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile according to our statistics.

User Ratings

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