GeForce RTX 4070 vs Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated20
Place by popularitynot in top-10032
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data60.23
Power efficiencyno data23.96
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTU106AD104
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)12 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores19205888
Core clock speed945 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speed1380 MHz2475 MHz
Number of transistors10,800 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate165.6455.4
Floating-point processing power5.299 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs120184
Tensor Cores240184
Ray Tracing Cores3046

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data240 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount6 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth336.0 GB/s504.2 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.58.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 12 April 2023
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 200 Watt

RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh has 150% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 140% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh and GeForce RTX 4070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 4070 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile Refresh
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