GeForce RTX 4090 vs GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop

[ VERDICT ] Winner: GeForce RTX 4090 (89/100)

GeForce RTX 4090 leads overall with a score of 89/100 compared to GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop (47/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Efficiency 43.0 Poor 64.0 Average WINNER
Gaming 93.0 Excellent WINNER 45.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3D Mark

3D Mark specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Fire Strike 72432 35708
Night Raid 195813 124794
Port Royal 26127 8718
Solar Bay 187525 60191
Time Spy 36299 13620
Wild Life Extreme 85218 24700

API

API specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
CUDA 8.9 12.0
DLSS DLSS 3 DLSS 4
DirectX 12 12.2
DisplayPort 1.4a 2.1b
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
Vulkan 1.3 1.4

Games

Games specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
1080p High 255 140
1080p Ultra 217 117
1440p Ultra 177 88
4K Ultra 106 51
CoD: Modern Warfare III 266263219151 1241118054
Counter-Strike 2 33923818890 24219113679
Cyberpunk 2077 22620814366 104926027
Far Cry 6 203179170104 1281189357
Forza Horizon 5 275199193155 148958762
Ghost of Tsushima 18815213791 88775931
Hogwarts Legacy 20016313274 98796134
Margin of Error Low Low
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 302284222118 16515011359
The Witcher 3 292268191101 16614010157

GeekBench 6 ML

GeekBench 6 ML specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Backend DirectML DirectML
Depth Estimation (Q) 75599 43305
Face Detection (HP) 78111 48283
Framework ONNX ONNX
Image Classification (SP) 15600 8984
Image Segmentation (HP) 36657 26270
Image Super Resolution (Q) 48114 24606
Machine Translation (HP) 6349 5770
Object Detection (SP) 21186 11172
Pose Estimation (Q) 289639 98180
Style Transfer (SP) 601428 165555
Text Classification (SP) 4074 3260

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GeekBench 6 OpenCL specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
API OpenCL OpenCL
Background Blur 318.9 img/sec 213.4 img/sec
Edge Detection 21 Gpixels/sec 6.23 Gpixels/sec
Face Detection 222.8 img/sec 130.4 img/sec
Feature Matching 2.38 Gpixels/sec 1.46 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 23.9 Gpixels/sec 7.41 Gpixels/sec
Horizon Detection 14.2 Gpixels/sec 4.89 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 48090.4 FPS 19395.6 FPS
Stereo Matching 1950 Gpixels/sec 661.9 Gpixels/sec

General

General specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Architecture Ada Lovelace Blackwell 2.0
Build Discrete Discrete
Case Desktop Laptop
GPU Codename AD102 GB206-300
Launch price (MSRP) $1599
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Recommended CPU -Intel Core i9 14900Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 7 255HXor above
Released September 20, 2022 January 7, 2025
Segment High-end Mid-range
Successor -GeForce RTX 5090
Vendor Nvidia Nvidia

Graphics Processing Unit

Graphics Processing Unit specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Base Clock 2235 MHz 890-1410 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 1410-2520 MHz (configurable)
Compute Units (Pipelines) 128 36
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 72MB shared 32MB shared
Ray-tracing Cores 128 36
Render Output Units (ROPs) 176 48
Shading Units 16384 4608
Tensor Cores 512 144
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 512 144

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Bus 384-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Effective Memory Speed 21000 Mbps 24000 Mbps
Memory Clock 2625 MHz 1750 MHz
Memory Size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6X GDDR7

Passmark Graphics

Passmark Graphics specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
DirectX 11 323 FPS 185 FPS
DirectX 12 151 FPS 91 FPS
G2D Mark 1303 895
GPU Compute 26022 Ops/s 6944 Ops/s

Physical

Physical specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Die Size 609 mm² 181 mm²
Fabrication Process 5 nm 4 nm
Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
TGP 450 W 50-125 W (configurable)
Transistor Count 76.3 billion 21.9 billion
Transistor Density 125.29 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²

Raw Performance

Raw Performance specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Pixel Fill Rate 444 GPixel/s 68-121 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 1290 GTexel/s 203-363 GTexel/s

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification GeForce RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-04-03(afroman420IU) Cinebench 2024
📘 2026-04-11(Cyrus) GeekBench
📘 2026-06-05(Levi) GeekBench

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