GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking97not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.82no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameno dataAD104
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date21 March 2023 (1 year ago)20 August 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 cores46085888
Core clock speedno data1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistorsno data35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)200 Watt
Texture fill rateno data455.4
Floating-point processing powerno data29.15 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data480.0 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 data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 March 2023 20 August 2024
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 12 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 115 Watt 200 Watt

RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile has 73.9% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 GDDR6, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile and GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Mobile
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