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GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop vs RTX 3050

GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
VS
GeForce RTX 3050
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
AD106 (GN21-X6)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 1 year and 1 month older RTX RTX 3050 that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score
The "Energy Efficiency" metric has less impact on the DeviceFacts Score for desktop GPU.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over RTX 4070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (20 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 93% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 81 vs 42 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Features 64 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 72% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (115K vs 67K)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 80% more shading units (4608 vs 2560)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RTX 4070 Laptop
vs
RTX 3050

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
139
89
77
56
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
164
129
95
53
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
236
183
130
71
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
121
109
87
51
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
91
77
60
28
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
111
105
77
51
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
85
69
53
29
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
99
84
53
25
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
147
137
100
53
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 133 75
1080p Ultra 109 59
1440p Ultra 81 42
4K Ultra 46 21
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RTX 4070 Laptop +101%
12736
RTX 3050
6348
Time Spy 12514 6235
Solar Bay 54815 30191
Port Royal 7416 3546
Fire Strike 30057 15967
Wild Life Extreme 23262 12795
Night Raid 113672 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RTX 4070 Laptop +72%
115081
RTX 3050
67028
Background Blur 158.5 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 116.5 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.35 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 5.67 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 528.5 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 16372.3 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RTX 4070 Laptop +125%
10642
RTX 3050
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 4070 Laptop +56%
19482
RTX 3050
12471
G2D Mark 766 916
DirectX 11 177 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 85 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 8365 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 13217 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RTX 4070 Laptop +145%
3584.78
RTX 3050
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 2204 & 1092 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL122515
📘 2026-06-05 (Wahid)Geekbench 6 OpenCL35869
Add View all (2)
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237
Add View all (2)

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RTX 4070 Laptop +79%
21186
RTX 3050
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
RTX 4070 Laptop +61%
34404
RTX 3050
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RTX 4070 Laptop +109%
16559
RTX 3050
7905
Image Classification (SP) 8642 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 20635 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 26378 9816
Face Detection (HP) 39776 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 105983 41362
Text Classification (SP) 2995 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 4507 3721
Object Detection (SP) 10198 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 41078 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 190315 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop and RTX 3050

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released February 22, 2023 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) - $249
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Entry-level
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ampere
GPU Codename AD106 (GN21-X6) GA106
Successor - GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#23rd place)
Desktop GPU rating (#71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 735-2070 MHz (configurable) 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 1230-2175 MHz (configurable) 1777 MHz
Shading Units 4608 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 20
Tensor Cores 144 80
Ray-tracing Cores 36 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 59-104 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 177-313 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 4070 Laptop +120%
11.3-20 TFLOPS
RTX 3050
9.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 35-140 W (configurable) 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 5 nm 8 nm
Die Size 186 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 22.9 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 123.12 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RTX 4070 Laptop +14%
256 GB/s
RTX 3050
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 8.9 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a

Cast your vote

Choose between two graphics cards
5 (83.3%)
1 (16.7%)
Total votes: 6

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