NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q
We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5070 and a Mobile platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 86% (2512MHz vs 1350MHz)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (672.0GB/s vs 336.0GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q 's Advantages
1280 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 5070
+54%
30.87 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 4080 Max Q
20.04 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2025
Release Date
Jan 2023
GeForce 50
Generation
GeForce 40 Mobile
Desktop
Type
Mobile
PCIe 5.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
2325 MHz
Base Clock
795 MHz
2512 MHz
Boost Clock
1350 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
12GB
GDDR7
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
192bit
672.0GB/s
Bandwidth
336.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
48
SM Count
58
6144
Shading Units
7424
192
TMUs
232
80
ROPs
80
192
Tensor Cores
232
48
RT Cores
58
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
48 MB
L2 Cache
48 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
201.0 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
108.0 GPixel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
313.2 GTexel/s
30.87 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
20.04 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.04 TFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
313.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
60W
600 W
Suggested PSU
-
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GB205
GPU Name
AD104
GB205-300-A1
GPU Variant
GN21-X9
Blackwell 2.0
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
4 nm
31.1 billion
Transistors
35.8 billion
263 mm²
Die Size
295 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.4
Vulkan
1.3
10.1
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.7
