NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070

We compared a Mobile platform GPU: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and a Desktop platform GPU: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 156% (2475MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (504.2GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

4544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 +1021%

29.15 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce RTX 4070

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2023

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 40

Mobile

Type

Desktop

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1920 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1313 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

504.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

46

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

5888

112

TMUs

184

24

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

AD104

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

AD104-250-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

295 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

200W

-

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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