GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 vs VIA Castle Rock

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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
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCLE266AD103
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 January 2003 (21 year ago)March 2024 (recently)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 cores35888
Core clock speed2 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data45,900 million
Manufacturing process technologyno data5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data455.4
Floating-point processing powerno data29.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data240 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeno dataGDDR6X
Maximum RAM amountno data12 GB
Memory bus widthno data192 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1313 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data504.2 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectXno data12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between VIA Castle Rock and GeForce RTX 4070 AD103. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that VIA Castle Rock is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4070 AD103 is a desktop one.


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