NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile Comparison

The database pairs these two GPUs for an obvious reason: they land within a couple of thousand points of each other on aggregate, yet they represent opposite philosophies of GPU design. The RTX 4060 Mobile is a 5 nm Ada Lovelace part built for laptops, sipping power while leaning on a modern feature set. The RTX 2070 SUPER is an end-of-life desktop card from the Turing era, brute-forcing its way through workloads with a wider memory bus and nearly double the power draw. The recorded data shows a genuinely close contest, with the 2070 SUPER taking 6 of 9 head-to-head benchmarks and the 4060 Mobile taking 3, but the margins tell a more interesting story than the win count suggests.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 2070 SUPER owns the legacy and raw-throughput categories. It wins passmark_directx_9 by 3.1 percent, passmark_directx_10 by a substantial 18.9 percent, and passmark_g2d by 16.9 percent, a sweep of older API and 2D workloads that favors its mature architecture and wider 256-bit memory path. It also edges the modern tests that reward sheer bandwidth and compute muscle: geekbench_vulkan by 1.2 percent, passmark_g3d by 3.9 percent, and passmark_gpu_compute by 9.8 percent. If the workload is a legacy title, a general 3D graphics benchmark, or GPU compute, the 2070 SUPER's numbers come out ahead.

The RTX 4060 Mobile wins where modern APIs and compute efficiency matter. It takes geekbench_opencl by 7.3 percent, passmark_directx_11 by 4 percent, and passmark_directx_12 by 9 percent. That DirectX 12 result is worth pausing on: the newest API in the suite is the one where the Ada Lovelace part pulls furthest ahead, which hints at where each architecture's strengths actually lie. The older the API, the more the pendulum swings toward Turing; the newer the API, the more it swings toward Ada.

There is also a context asymmetry that no single score captures. The 4060 Mobile posts its numbers at a 115 W TDP inside an integrated mobile form factor, while the 2070 SUPER needs 215 W, a dual-slot card with a 6-pin plus 8-pin connector arrangement and a suggested 550 W PSU. The mobile chip achieves near-parity in aggregate average score, 22729 versus 20282, while consuming roughly half the power.

The Verdict

Strictly from the data, the RTX 4060 Mobile is the better pick for anyone running modern DirectX 12 or DirectX 11 software on the go, or doing OpenCL compute work: it wins all three of those categories, it sits at the 67th percentile versus the 2070 SUPER's 65th percentile against all GPUs in the database, and it does so at half the TDP. It is also an active product, while the 2070 SUPER is end-of-life.

The RTX 2070 SUPER remains the pick for legacy DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 titles, 2D work, Vulkan compute, and raw passmark_g3d and passmark_gpu_compute throughput. Its 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth dwarfs the 4060 Mobile's 256 GB/s, and that shows up in exactly the bandwidth-hungry tests you would expect. Notably, the 4060 Mobile's average score of 22729 places it within striking distance of the RTX 2080 (22895, just 0.7 percent ahead of it) and ahead of cards like the Radeon RX 7700 XT (0.8 percent behind the 4060 Mobile) and the RTX 5060 Mobile (1.3 percent behind). The 2070 SUPER's rival circle, the Quadro M4000M, RTX 3070 Mobile, Arc B570, and Arc A750, sits lower in the 20480 to 20582 range.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

Start with the biggest gap in either direction: passmark_directx_10, where the 2070 SUPER scores 132 against 107, an 18.9 percent win for the desktop card. Legacy API performance is decisively Turing territory here. The 2D story repeats it, with the 2070 SUPER at 878 versus 730 in passmark_g2d, a 16.9 percent margin.

The 4060 Mobile's counterpunch arrives in compute and modern graphics. Geekbench OpenCL reads 89420 to 83358, a 7.3 percent win for the mobile chip, and passmark_directx_12 goes 73 to 67, a 9 percent edge. DirectX 11 falls narrowly to the 4060 Mobile as well, 157 to 151, a 4 percent margin.

The remaining tests are close. Geekbench Vulkan favors the 2070 SUPER, 90637 to 89569, but only by 1.2 percent. Passmark DirectX 9 goes to the 2070 SUPER 223 to 216, a 3.1 percent gap. The headline passmark_g3d result is 18169 for the 2070 SUPER versus 17469 for the 4060 Mobile, 3.9 percent apart. And passmark_gpu_compute lands at 7557 versus 6816, a 9.8 percent win for the desktop card.

The pattern across all nine: the 2070 SUPER wins more often, but its margins cluster in legacy tests, while the 4060 Mobile's wins concentrate in OpenCL and DirectX 12. Neither card dominates. Three of the 2070 SUPER's six wins are by 4 percent or less.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU is faster overall according to the database? A: The averages are close: 22729 for the RTX 4060 Mobile versus 20282 for the RTX 2070 SUPER, and the 4060 Mobile sits at the 67th percentile against all GPUs versus 65th for the 2070 SUPER. However, in direct head-to-head benchmarks the 2070 SUPER wins 6 of 9 tests.

Q: Which one is better for modern DirectX 12 games? A: The RTX 4060 Mobile, by 9 percent in passmark_directx_12 (73 versus 67). It also wins DirectX 11 by 4 percent.

Q: Which one handles older games better? A: The RTX 2070 SUPER. It wins passmark_directx_9 by 3.1 percent and passmark_directx_10 by 18.9 percent.

Q: How do their power requirements compare? A: The 4060 Mobile is rated at 115 W with no power connectors, being an integrated mobile part. The 2070 SUPER is rated at 215 W, uses one 6-pin plus one 8-pin connector, and carries a suggested 550 W PSU.

Q: How much memory bandwidth does each have? A: The 2070 SUPER offers 448 GB/s across a 256-bit bus with 8 GB of GDDR6. The 4060 Mobile offers 256 GB/s across a 128-bit bus, also with 8 GB of GDDR6.

Q: Is either card still in production? A: The RTX 4060 Mobile is listed as active; the RTX 2070 SUPER is end-of-life.

Architecture Differences

The generational gap is wide. The 4060 Mobile uses the AD107 chip on TSMC's 5 nm process with 18,900 million transistors on a 159 mm² die, yielding a density of 118.9M per mm². The 2070 SUPER uses the TU104 chip on a 12 nm process with 13,600 million transistors spread across a much larger 545 mm² die, at 25.0M per mm². The Ada part packs roughly 39 percent more transistors into roughly 29 percent of the area, a stark illustration of what two process generations buy.

Core counts trade in interesting directions. The 4060 Mobile has more shading units, 3072 versus 2560, but fewer texture units, 96 versus 160, and fewer render outputs, 48 versus 64. Ray tracing cores sit at 24 versus 40, while tensor cores read 96 versus 320. The FP16 story is philosophically split: the 4060 Mobile runs FP16 at 1:1 with FP32 (both 11.61 TFLOPS), whereas the 2070 SUPER doubles FP16 to 18.12 TFLOPS against 9.062 TFLOPS FP32.

Feature and interface differences follow the same arc. The 4060 Mobile connects over PCIe 4.0 x8, the 2070 SUPER over PCIe 3.0 x16, a wider but older link. Clocks run 1545 MHz base and 1890 MHz boost on the mobile card versus 1605 MHz base and 1770 MHz boost on the desktop part. Both support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4.

Specification Differences

The differing fields, side by side:

• Chip: AD107 versus TU104
• Architecture: Ada Lovelace versus Turing
• Process node: 5 nm versus 12 nm
• Transistors: 18,900 million versus 13,600 million
• Die size: 159 mm² versus 545 mm²
• Transistor density: 118.9M per mm² versus 25.0M per mm²
• Base clock: 1545 MHz versus 1605 MHz
• Boost clock: 1890 MHz versus 1770 MHz
• Memory speed: 16 Gbps effective versus 14 Gbps effective
• Bus width: 128 bit versus 256 bit
• Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/s versus 448.0 GB/s
• Shading units: 3072 versus 2560
• TMUs: 96 versus 160
• ROPs: 48 versus 64
• RT cores: 24 versus 40
• Tensor cores: 96 versus 320
• Pixel rate: 90.72 GPixel/s versus 113.3 GPixel/s
• Texture rate: 181.4 GTexel/s versus 283.2 GTexel/s
• FP32: 11.61 TFLOPS versus 9.062 TFLOPS
• FP16: 11.61 TFLOPS (1:1) versus 18.12 TFLOPS (2:1)
• TDP: 115 W versus 215 W
• Slot width: IGP versus Dual-slot
• Power connectors: None versus 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
• Suggested PSU: none listed versus 550 W
• Bus interface: PCIe 4.0 x8 versus PCIe 3.0 x16
• Display outputs: portable device dependent versus 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
• Card dimensions: not applicable versus 267 mm long, 116 mm high, 35 mm wide
• Production status: Active versus End-of-life
• Release date: 2023-01-02 versus 2019-07-08
• Launch MSRP: none listed for the 4060 Mobile; 499 USD launch MSRP for the 2070 SUPER
• Successor: GeForce 50 Mobile versus GeForce 30

Shared specs: both are NVIDIA parts with 8 GB of GDDR6, and both report DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4 support.