GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile vs RTX 4080 Max-Q

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameAD104GB206
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)2025

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores74244608
Core clock speed795 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1350 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistors35,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology4 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)60 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate313.2362.9
Floating-point processing power20.04 TFLOPS23.22 TFLOPS
ROPs8048
TMUs232144
Tensor Cores232144
Ray Tracing Cores5836

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount12 GB8 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s507.2 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.910.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 60 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 4080 Max-Q has a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 91.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q and GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
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