NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1290MHz vs 1230MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (35W vs 80W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q +16%

13.21 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

11.34 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 Max Q

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2021

Release Date

Jan 2023

GeForce 30 Mobile

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1290 MHz

Boost Clock

1230 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

40

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

5120

Shading Units

4608

160

TMUs

144

80

ROPs

48

160

Tensor Cores

144

40

RT Cores

36

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

103.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

206.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.1 GTexel/s

13.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

11.34 TFLOPS

13.21 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

206.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

177.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

AD106

GA104-770-A1

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

Ampere

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

4 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

Unknown

392 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

8.9

6.6

Shader Model

6.7

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