GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q vs Radeon RX 6700M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking144not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency17.85no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 22AD106
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date31 May 2021 (3 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 speed1489 MHz735 MHz
Boost clock speed2400 MHz1230 MHz
Number of transistors17,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)135 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate345.6177.1
Floating-point processing power11.06 TFLOPS11.34 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs144144
Tensor Coresno data144
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 sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 amount10 GB8 GB
Memory bus width160 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s224.0 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
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 31 May 2021 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 135 Watt 35 Watt

RX 6700M has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4070 Max-Q, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, a 75% more advanced lithography process, and 285.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6700M and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon RX 6700M
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