GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop vs RTX 4060

We performed a head-to-head comparison of the GeForce RTX 5070 Mobile with 36 pipelines and 4608 shaders against the 1 year and 8 months older RTX RTX 4060 that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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 4060 over RTX 5070 Mobile
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
  • Performs better (up to 31%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 54% higher maximum theoretical performance (23.2 vs 15.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 28% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 69 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
148
95
87
62
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
166
140
101
57
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
242
191
136
79
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
128
118
93
57
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
98
79
61
34
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
124
111
80
54
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
88
77
59
31
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
104
92
60
27
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
165
150
113
59
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 140 116
1080p Ultra 117 96
1440p Ultra 88 69
4K Ultra 51 40
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
13949
10683
Time Spy 13620 10615
Solar Bay 60191 49340
Port Royal 8718 6054
Fire Strike 35708 28540
Wild Life Extreme 24700 20610
Night Raid 124794 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
134209
106633
Background Blur 213.4 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 130.4 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.89 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.23 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 7.41 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.46 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 661.9 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19395.6 FPS 14935.1 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 4060 +2%
19485
G2D Mark 895 1036
DirectX 11 185 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 91 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 7051 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3607 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
4005.43
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 440 & 2092 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 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

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
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
40929
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
17069
14234
Image Classification (SP) 8984 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 26270 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 24606 23289
Face Detection (HP) 48283 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 98180 78361
Text Classification (SP) 3260 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 5770 3491
Object Detection (SP) 11172 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 43305 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 165555 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop and RTX 4060

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) - $299
Case Laptop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename GB206-300 AD107
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Laptop GPU ranking (#16th place)
Desktop GPU rating (#54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 890-1410 MHz (configurable) 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 1410-2520 MHz (configurable) 2460 MHz
Shading Units 4608 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 144 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 36 24
Tensor Cores 144 96
Ray-tracing Cores 36 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 32MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 68-121 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 203-363 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
13-23.2 TFLOPS
15.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 50-125 W (configurable) 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 181 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 21.9 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 120.99 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 1750 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 24000 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
384 GB/s
272 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 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a

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