The Geekbench 5 database has revealed performance benchmarks for forthcoming laptop GPUs such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070, RTX 4060, RTX 4050, and AMD’s Radeon RX 7700S. AMD and NVIDIA both announced their latest laptop discrete GPU lineups leveraging the RDNA 3 and Ada Lovelace architectures earlier this week. The first laptops based on these GPUs are anticipated to ship in February next month, however benchmarks for a couple of these GPUs appear to have leaked ahead of time.
The GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 will have 8 GB of GDDR6 RAM. Both GPUs will have a regular 35W profile, a TGP of up to 115W, and a Dynamic Boost Range of 25W. The RTX 4070 will have 4608 Cores, 8 GB of memory, up to 2175 MHz boost clocks, and a 128-bit bus, while the RTX 4060 will have 3072 Cores, 8 GB of memory, up to 2370 MHz boost clocks, and a 128-bit bus.
Finally, there will be an entry-level GeForce RTX 4050 6 GB with a 35W-115W TGP option (25W Dynamic Boost profile too). At its 115W TGP range, the GPU will have a boost frequency of up to 2370 MHz. The GPU will have a 96-bit bus interface with a clock speed of 1605 MHz.
The Navi 33 GPU is used in the AMD Radeon RX 7700S, which is based on the RDNA 3 architecture.
It has 32 Compute Units with 2048 shader processors, 8 GB of 18 Gbps GDDR6 memory, and a 128-bit bus interface. The GPU includes 32 MB of Infinity cache and has a TDP of 75-100W.
Because all GPUs have a variable range, it’s not a good idea to compare them until we know their power figures. These GPUs are also largely reliant on the cooling capacities of each laptop, so that must be taken into account as well. You can’t argue the RTX 4060 or 4070 is better than the RX 7700S if it’s running at its base-line 75W TDP versus the NVIDIA GPUs’ max limit of 115W TGPs.
The AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT is the fastest GPU AMD expects to offer next month, but it falls short of NVIDIA’s high-end alternatives for laptops, such as the RTX 4090 and RT 4080. It will be fascinating to watch how the next-generation mobile GPUs perform on a per-laptop basis.
Several NVIDIA RTX 40 & RX 7000M/S designs have been released by a variety of manufacturers, but we’ll see if AMD can truly deliver all-AMD notebooks on time this year, as they did with their previous Radeon 5000 and Radeon 6000 series offerings.
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