GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs RTX 3070

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 4 years and 4 months older RTX RTX 3070 that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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 3070 over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
  • Has 28% more shading units (5888 vs 4608)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
147
99
86
61
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
168
143
100
54
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
244
194
137
77
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
132
121
96
54
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
97
80
62
35
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
121
113
85
52
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
89
74
56
31
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
106
94
59
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
165
153
113
60
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 141
1080p Ultra 117 119
1440p Ultra 88 88
4K Ultra 51 50
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 3070 +1%
14152
Time Spy 13620 13644
Solar Bay 60191 64452
Port Royal 8718 8312
Fire Strike 35708 34056
Wild Life Extreme 24700 28488
Night Raid 124794 122159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
134209
126195
Background Blur 213.4 img/sec 161.6 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 117.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 5.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 8.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 550.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 17613.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RTX 3070 +16%
22079
G2D Mark 895 1005
DirectX 11 185 FPS 183 FPS
DirectX 12 91 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s 11007 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3607 & 38662 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4005.43
3356.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 4796 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-05 (Levi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141514
📘 2026-04-11 (Cyrus)Geekbench 6 OpenCL131880
GeForce RTX 3070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-11-15 (mit)Cinebench 20249652

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
22022
19789
GB6 ML Half Precision
40929
33013
GB6 ML Quantized
17069
12443
Image Classification (SP) 8984 7624
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 23420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 17898
Face Detection (HP) 48283 40535
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 83624
Text Classification (SP) 3260 2724
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 4481
Object Detection (SP) 11172 10304
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 30418
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 180089
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and RTX 3070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 October 22, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) - $499
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ampere
GPU Codename GB206-300 GA104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#16th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 1725 MHz
Shading Units 4608 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 46
Tensor Cores 144 184
Ray-tracing Cores 36 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 317 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS
20.3 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 4 nm 8 nm
Die Size 181 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 43.37 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
384 GB/s
RTX 3070 +17%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.0 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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