NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070, RTX 4060, and RTX 4050 mainstream laptop GPU tests have arrived and while Ada improves desktop performance significantly, it appears that mainstream laptop chips are constrained by their reliance on entry-level dies with limited core count and memory configurations.
Each Ada mainstream GPU appears to be one SKU tier lower than its predecessor. The RTX 4070 has been downgraded to AD106 from the GA104 GPU on the 4070 Ti, the RTX 4060 has been downgraded to AD107 from the GA106 GPU on the RTX 3060, and the RTX 4050 has the same die SKU but a smaller AD107 die.
Golden Pig Upgrade’s first performance benchmarks show four laptop configurations that were tested. The NVIDIA RTX 40 series GPUs were tested on a Lenovo Reference platform in 13th Gen Raptor Lake-HX flavours, with the GPUs set to their maximum 140W TGP and 225 Watt Total Platform Power or TPP. These were pitted against an RTX 3070 Ti GPU found on the Lenovo Y9000P, which has a 150W TGP and a 205W TPP.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 outperformed the RTX 3050 Ti by 37.3%, the RTX 4060 outperformed the RTX 3060 by 19.3%, and the RTX 4070 outperformed the RTX 3070 Ti by 4% on average in the 3DMark benchmark.
The RTX 4070 performed worse in 1080p and 1440p tests across a variety of AAA and eSports titles. The RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 being slower was to be expected given their lower price point and lower specifications. Only with DLSS 3 can the RTX 40 series GPUs outperform their older RTX 30 series counterparts, otherwise you’re looking at a nominal 5-25% performance boost in gaming on average.
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