AMD Radeon Pro 570X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The recorded data includes two directly comparable cross-platform workloads: Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan. In both cases, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile dominates decisively.

Starting with Geekbench OpenCL, the AMD Radeon Pro 570X scores 27,604, while the RTX 4070 Mobile scores 109,197. That is a delta of -74.7%, meaning the NVIDIA part delivers roughly four times the compute throughput in this test. The OpenCL workload exercises raw shader and general-purpose compute capabilities, and the gap here reflects the massive architectural and process-generation difference between the two.

In Geekbench Vulkan, the pattern repeats. The AMD part scores 28,859, and the RTX 4070 Mobile scores 108,367, a delta of -73.4%. Vulkan is a lower-level API that can expose hardware efficiencies more directly, and the NVIDIA GPU still maintains nearly the same proportional lead. The AMD card's Vulkan score is slightly higher than its OpenCL score, suggesting the GCN 4.0 architecture handles Vulkan marginally better than OpenCL, but the absolute performance ceiling is far lower.

The head-to-head table records zero wins for the AMD Radeon Pro 570X and two wins for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile. There is no single workload in the database where the older AMD part comes out ahead. This is not a close contest by any metric; the RTX 4070 Mobile is faster by a factor of roughly 3.7 to 3.9 depending on the API.

The average benchmark score across all recorded tests reinforces the same conclusion. The AMD Radeon Pro 570X has an average score of 32,176, placing it in the 76th percentile of all GPUs in the database. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile has an average score of 27,435, which seems lower at first glance, but that figure includes several Passmark legacy tests (DirectX 9, 10, 11, 12, G2D, G3D, and compute) that pull the average down. The two directly comparable modern compute tests tell the real story.

Looking at the nearest rivals for each card provides additional context. The AMD Radeon Pro 570X sits within 1.1% of the AMD FirePro S9300 X2 (32,540 average), 0.9% above the Intel Arc Pro A30M (31,894), and 0.7% below the AMD FirePro S10000 (32,388). Its closest competitor, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, is only 0.9% higher at 32,456. This shows the Radeon Pro 570X is competitive with a narrow band of workstation and prosumer GPUs from the same era, but that entire band sits far below the RTX 4070 Mobile's compute capability.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile, by contrast, sits within 1.5% of the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20 (27,839), within 0.5% of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (27,565), and exactly level with the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (27,425). The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell is 1.1% higher at 27,135. These comparisons use the average score, which is skewed by the legacy Passmark tests, but the ranking shows the RTX 4070 Mobile occupies a similar percentile position (73rd) despite the compute-heavy modern workloads being dramatically higher.

The Verdict

The data is unambiguous: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is the superior GPU for anyone prioritizing raw compute performance, modern API support, and efficiency. In OpenCL, it leads by 74.7%, and in Vulkan by 73.4%. No benchmark in the database shows the AMD Radeon Pro 570X winning any recorded test.

For users who need a GPU for modern gaming, machine learning inference, content creation with GPU acceleration, or any workload that leverages current APIs like DirectX 12 Ultimate or Vulkan 1.4, the RTX 4070 Mobile is the only rational choice. Its 36 ray tracing cores and 144 tensor cores provide dedicated hardware that the AMD part lacks entirely. The 8 GB GDDR6 memory with 256 GB/s bandwidth doubles the capacity and offers 18% more bandwidth than the AMD card's 217 GB/s.

The AMD Radeon Pro 570X does have one practical advantage: it is an integrated GPU (IGP) with no power connectors, designed for portable Apple Mac systems. The RTX 4070 Mobile is also listed as IGP with no power connectors, but it carries a 115 W TDP compared to 150 W for the AMD part. That is counterintuitive but accurate: the newer NVIDIA GPU delivers roughly four times the performance while drawing 23% less power. The process node difference (5 nm TSMC versus 14 nm GlobalFoundries) explains most of this efficiency gap.

For someone using or maintaining a legacy Mac Pro system where the Radeon Pro 570X is the only compatible option, the situation is different. The card is end-of-life, released in March 2019, and its 76th percentile ranking shows it was a mid-range performer even in its day. But in a head-to-head choice with no platform constraints, the RTX 4070 Mobile wins every measurable category.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs come from fundamentally different eras of semiconductor design. The AMD Radeon Pro 570X uses the Ellesmere chip built on GCN 4.0 architecture, manufactured on a 14 nm process at GlobalFoundries. It packs 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 24.6 million per square millimeter. The GCN 4.0 design dates back to the Polaris generation, and its compute resources include 1,792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, 32 raster output units, and no ray tracing or tensor cores.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile uses the AD106 chip based on Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured on a 5 nm process at TSMC. It contains 22,900 million transistors on a smaller 188 mm² die, achieving a transistor density of 121.8 million per square millimeter. That is roughly five times the density of the AMD chip. The compute configuration includes 4,608 shading units, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 36 ray tracing cores, and 144 tensor cores. The shader count is 2.57 times higher, the texture units are 1.29 times higher, and the ROPs are 1.5 times higher.

Clock speeds also favor the NVIDIA part. The AMD card runs at a 1000 MHz base and 1105 MHz boost. The RTX 4070 Mobile runs at 1395 MHz base and 1695 MHz boost, which is 39.5% higher base and 53.4% higher boost. Memory clocks differ as well: the AMD card uses 1695 MHz GDDR5 with 6.8 Gbps effective, while the NVIDIA card uses 2000 MHz GDDR6 with 16 Gbps effective. The memory bus is wider on the AMD card (256 bit versus 128 bit), but the higher data rate on the NVIDIA card still delivers more bandwidth: 256 GB/s versus 217 GB/s.

The API support reflects the generational gap. The AMD part supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3. The NVIDIA part supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The bus interface also differs: PCIe 3.0 x16 on AMD versus PCIe 4.0 x8 on NVIDIA. In practice, the PCIe 4.0 x8 connection offers comparable bandwidth to PCIe 3.0 x16, so this is not a major differentiator.

Pixel and texture rates show the NVIDIA part's advantage in raw throughput. The AMD card achieves 35.36 GPixel/s and 123.8 GTexel/s. The RTX 4070 Mobile achieves 81.36 GPixel/s and 244.1 GTexel/s, which is 2.3 times and 2.0 times higher respectively. Floating-point performance follows the same pattern: 3.960 TFLOPS FP32 and FP16 on AMD versus 15.62 TFLOPS on NVIDIA, a factor of 3.94.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has higher memory bandwidth?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile has 256 GB/s bandwidth with 8 GB GDDR6, while the AMD Radeon Pro 570X has 217 GB/s with 4 GB GDDR5.

Q: Does the AMD Radeon Pro 570X support ray tracing?

A: No. The AMD part has no ray tracing cores. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile includes 36 ray tracing cores and 144 tensor cores.

Q: Which card is more power efficient?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile has a 115 W TDP, while the AMD Radeon Pro 570X has a 150 W TDP. The NVIDIA card delivers roughly four times the compute performance at lower power consumption.

Q: What is the production status of each GPU?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro 570X is end-of-life, released in March 2019. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is active, released in January 2023, with a predecessor in GeForce 30 Mobile and a successor in GeForce 50 Mobile.

Q: Which API versions does each card support?

A: The AMD card supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3. The NVIDIA card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Q: How do the two cards compare in Geekbench Vulkan?

A: The AMD Radeon Pro 570X scores 28,859, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile scores 108,367, a delta of -73.4% in favor of the NVIDIA card.

Where Each One Wins

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile wins in every recorded benchmark. In Geekbench OpenCL, it leads by 74.7%. In Geekbench Vulkan, it leads by 73.4%. It also wins on memory capacity (8 GB versus 4 GB), memory bandwidth (256 GB/s versus 217 GB/s), pixel rate (81.36 versus 35.36 GPixel/s), texture rate (244.1 versus 123.8 GTexel/s), FP32 and FP16 compute (15.62 versus 3.960 TFLOPS), and API support (DirectX 12 Ultimate versus DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.4 versus 1.3).

The AMD Radeon Pro 570X wins in no measurable performance category. Its only advantages are contextual: it is from the GCN 4.0 era with a wider 256-bit memory bus, and it has a higher transistor density per square millimeter than the NVIDIA part, but that is a manufacturing metric, not a performance one. The AMD card's 76th percentile ranking versus the NVIDIA card's 73rd percentile is the only statistic where the AMD part appears favorable, but that is an artifact of the average score being diluted by legacy Passmark tests on the NVIDIA side.

For a workstation usage scenario where the host system only supports the Radeon Pro 570X, such as an older Mac Pro, the AMD card remains functional for basic compute and display output. But for any modern workload, from gaming to GPU-accelerated rendering to machine learning inference, the RTX 4070 Mobile is the clear choice. The 36 RT cores and 144 tensor cores open capabilities that the AMD card cannot access at all.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every specification field. The process node is 14 nm on AMD versus 5 nm on NVIDIA, with foundries of GlobalFoundries versus TSMC. Transistor count is 5,700 million versus 22,900 million, and die size is 232 mm² versus 188 mm². Transistor density is 24.6M per mm² versus 121.8M per mm².

Clock speeds: base 1000 MHz versus 1395 MHz, boost 1105 MHz versus 1695 MHz, memory 1695 MHz (6.8 Gbps effective) versus 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective). Memory configuration: 4 GB GDDR5 with 256-bit bus versus 8 GB GDDR6 with 128-bit bus. Bandwidth is 217 GB/s versus 256 GB/s.

Compute units: 1,792 shading units versus 4,608, 112 TMUs versus 144, 32 ROPs versus 48. The NVIDIA card adds 36 RT cores and 144 tensor cores; the AMD card has none. Pixel rate is 35.36 versus 81.36 GPixel/s, texture rate is 123.8 versus 244.1 GTexel/s, and FP32/FP16 are 3.960 versus 15.62 TFLOPS.

TDP is 150 W versus 115 W. Both are IGP slot width with no power connectors. Bus interface is PCIe 3.0 x16 versus PCIe 4.0 x8. Display outputs are portable device dependent for both. DirectX support is 12 (12_0) versus 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL is 4.6 for both, and Vulkan is 1.3 versus 1.4. Production status is end-of-life versus active. Release dates are March 2019 versus January 2023.