1070 vs 3070 Laptop

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Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop) videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
• 2.5x more pipelines: 5120 vs 2048
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 8 nm vs 16 nm
• Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 80 - 125 Watt vs 150 Watt
• Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 15133 vs 10465
• Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 651 vs 603
• 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 111207 vs 47499
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 405.829 vs 150.951
• 2.3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 3961.685 vs 1718.593
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 36.308 vs 12.283
• 6.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 182.174 vs 28.289
• Around 84% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 1310.097 vs 710.366
• Around 81% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 24877 vs 13765
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 11471 vs 3691
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 13334 vs 3340
• Around 81% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 24877 vs 13765
• 3.1x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 11471 vs 3691
• 4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 13334 vs 3340
• Around 90% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 10547 vs 5554

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

• Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1506 MHz vs 780 - 1100 MHz
• Around 2% higher boost clock speed: 1645 MHz vs 1290 - 1620 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (Laptop)

Compare specifications (specs)

• Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
• Core clock speed 1506
• Max video memory 8 GB GDDR5
• Memory type GDDR5
• Memory clock speed 8 Gbps
• Maximum resolution

• Interface PCIe 4.0 x16
• Core clock speed
• Max video memory
• Memory type
• Memory clock speed
• Maximum resolution

Comparison of graphics card architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters.

Value for money

To get the index we compare the characteristics of video cards and their relative prices.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile and GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Memory

Parameters of memory installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated VRAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Video outputs and ports

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.

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

API support

APIs supported, including particular versions of those APIs.

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

• 3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
• 3DMark Fire Strike Score
• 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
• 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
• 3DMark Ice Storm GPU
• Passmark

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

1920x1080Medium Preset

1920x1080High Preset

1920x1080Ultra Preset

2560x1440High Preset

2560x1440Ultra Preset

3840x2160High Preset

3840x2160Ultra Preset

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, Technical City recommends

since it shows better performance.

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