GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated55
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data30.76
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106BAD106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date19 January 2020 (4 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores23044608
Core clock speed1305 MHz1395 MHz
Boost clock speed1485 MHz1695 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology12 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate213.8244.1
Floating-point processing power6.843 TFLOPS15.62 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs144144
Tensor Cores288144
Ray Tracing Cores3636

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s256.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1401.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 January 2020 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 12 nm 4 nm

RTX 4070 Mobile has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 200% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh and GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile Refresh
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