Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada vs GeForce RTX 4070

We compared two discrete desktop graphics cards: the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada 32 GB with 100 pipelines and 12800 shaders against the 4 months older GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB 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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
32 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6X
8.5
(Bad)
Value Index
40.8
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 over RTX 5000 Ada
Reasons to consider the Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
  • Performs significantly better (up to 59%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (65.3 vs 29.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 22% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 129 vs 106 FPS
  • Includes 20 GB more video memory
  • Features 216 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Achieves 55% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (260K vs 167K)
  • Has 2.2x more shading units (12800 vs 5888)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
201
141
132
98
172
115
102
79
The Witcher 3
212
184
133
73
194
159
114
61
Counter-Strike 2
292
211
158
86
272
205
149
81
Far Cry 6
165
153
132
81
149
133
115
68
Hogwarts Legacy
139
114
92
51
117
97
77
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
182
176
137
91
149
145
107
69
Ghost of Tsushima
129
106
93
59
106
88
72
43
Cyberpunk 2077
160
143
99
48
129
119
75
37
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
265
241
188
101
211
190
145
80
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 194 167
1080p Ultra 163 139
1440p Ultra 129 106
4K Ultra 76 62
Margin of Error High 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
28751
18089
Time Spy 18364 17799
Solar Bay 128428 82861
Port Royal 17986 11156
Fire Strike 49922 44067
Wild Life Extreme 52866 35472
Night Raid 139369 153385
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
260099
167522
Background Blur 286.6 img/sec 233 img/sec
Face Detection 220.4 img/sec 141.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 9.93 Gpixels/sec 6.62 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 13.7 Gpixels/sec 9.19 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 18.9 Gpixels/sec 9.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 2.2 Gpixels/sec 1.78 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 1580 Gpixels/sec 845.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 41235.6 FPS 25043.9 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
30950
26856
G2D Mark 1008 1165
DirectX 11 272 FPS 243 FPS
DirectX 12 110 FPS 103 FPS
GPU Compute 20805 Ops/s 14561 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 229 & 20710 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
7698.51
5387.27
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 31 & 3020 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-14 (kashitsu)Cinebench 202418051

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
24715
RTX 4070 +10%
27166
GB6 ML Half Precision
36753
RTX 4070 +11%
40963
GB6 ML Quantized
19649
RTX 4070 +3%
20332
Image Classification (SP) 9943 10246
Image Segmentation (HP) 19696 26153
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32252 32054
Face Detection (HP) 43098 51337
Pose Estimation (Q) 138689 124617
Text Classification (SP) 2893 3703
Machine Translation (HP) 4064 5484
Object Detection (SP) 12467 13134
Depth Estimation (Q) 50352 50548
Style Transfer (SP) 265482 263477
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada and GeForce RTX 4070

General

Vendor Nvidia Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released August 9, 2023 April 13, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $4000 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Professional Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename AD102 AD104
Rival Equivalent - - Radeon RX 7900 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i9 14900K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (9th and 30th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1155 MHz 1920 MHz
Boost Clock 2550 MHz 2475 MHz
Shading Units 12800 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 400 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 100 46
Tensor Cores 400 184
Ray-tracing Cores 100 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 36MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 449 GPixel/s 158 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1020 GTexel/s 455 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RTX 5000 Ada +124%
65.3 TFLOPS
29.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 250 W 200 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 609 mm² 294 mm²
Transistor Count 76 billion 35 billion
Transistor Density 124.79 MTr/mm² 119.05 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 32 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
576 GB/s
504 GB/s

API

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

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