NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The recorded data includes one direct head-to-head benchmark between the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 and the NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q: Geekbench Vulkan. The RTX 4070 scores 174,152 points, while the GRID M60-1Q scores 31,220 points. This is a decisive 457.8% advantage for the RTX 4070, meaning it delivers over five and a half times the Vulkan performance of the older Maxwell-based card. In practical terms, any workload that relies on Vulkan rendering or compute will see a massive uplift on the newer card.

Beyond the single shared test, the database shows each card's average benchmark score across all recorded tests. The RTX 4070 averages 37,648 points, which places it in the 81st percentile of all GPUs tracked. The GRID M60-1Q averages 31,220 points, sitting in the 76th percentile. The average gap of 6,428 points is substantial, though the RTX 4070's percentile advantage of 5 points might seem modest. That narrow percentile difference is a reflection of the database's distribution of GPUs, not a sign of competitive performance. The actual score delta shows a clear hierarchy.

Looking at the RTX 4070's nearest rivals in the database, its average score of 37,648 is nearly identical to the NVIDIA Tesla P4 (37,628, a 0.1% difference) and the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (37,507, a 0.4% difference). It trails the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile by 1.3% (38,135) and leads the AMD Radeon PRO W6400 by 1.3% (37,157). These are close margins, indicating the RTX 4070 sits in a tightly packed performance cluster. The GRID M60-1Q, meanwhile, matches the NVIDIA Quadro M5000 exactly (31,206, a 0% delta), trails the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell by 1% (31,532) and the NVIDIA TITAN RTX by 1.4% (31,676), and leads the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER by 0.4% (31,087). That last comparison is an artifact of the database's scoring aggregation, not a claim that the GRID card outruns a modern RTX 4070 Ti SUPER in real workloads.

The RTX 4070 also has a broad set of individual benchmark scores that show where its strengths lie. In Passmark G3D, it scores 26,927. Its Passmark GPU Compute score is 14,720. In Geekbench OpenCL, it hits 154,858. The GRID M60-1Q has no recorded scores for these tests, so the comparison rests on the Vulkan result and the overall averages. The RTX 4070 wins the only direct benchmark, wins the average score comparison, and wins the percentile comparison. The data is unambiguous.

FAQ

Q: Which card is faster in the only benchmark they share?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 scores 174,152 in Geekbench Vulkan, while the NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q scores 31,220. That is a 457.8% lead for the RTX 4070.

Q: How do their overall average scores compare?

A: The RTX 4070 averages 37,648 points across all recorded benchmarks, while the GRID M60-1Q averages 31,220 points. The RTX 4070 also sits in the 81st percentile of all GPUs, versus the 76th percentile for the GRID card.

Q: What is the closest rival to each card in the database?

A: The RTX 4070's nearest rival by average score is the NVIDIA Tesla P4 at 37,628, a 0.1% difference. The GRID M60-1Q's nearest rival is the NVIDIA Quadro M5000 at 31,206, a 0% difference.

Q: Does the GRID M60-1Q have any benchmark win over the RTX 4070?

A: No. In the head-to-head data, the RTX 4070 records 1 win and the GRID M60-1Q records 0 wins.

Q: What is the memory configuration difference?

A: The RTX 4070 has 12 GB of GDDR6X on a 192-bit bus with 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The GRID M60-1Q has 1 GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus with 160.4 GB/s of bandwidth.

Q: How do their compute capabilities differ?

A: The RTX 4070 has 5,888 shading units, 184 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 46 ray tracing cores, and 184 tensor cores. The GRID M60-1Q has 2,048 shading units, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs, with no ray tracing or tensor cores listed.

Architecture Differences

The two cards come from completely different eras of NVIDIA's GPU design. The RTX 4070 uses the AD104 chip built on Ada Lovelace architecture, manufactured by TSMC on a 5 nm process. It packs 35,800 million transistors into a 294 mm² die, giving a transistor density of 121.8 million per square millimeter. The GRID M60-1Q uses the GM204 chip based on Maxwell 2.0 architecture, also made by TSMC but on a much older 28 nm process. It contains 5,200 million transistors spread across a larger 398 mm² die, resulting in just 13.1 million transistors per square millimeter. The density difference explains a great deal: the newer process allows the RTX 4070 to fit nearly ten times more transistors per area.

Clock speeds tell a similar story. The RTX 4070 has a base clock of 1920 MHz and a boost clock of 2475 MHz. The GRID M60-1Q starts at a low 557 MHz base but boosts to 1178 MHz. Even at boost, the GRID card runs at less than half the RTX 4070's base clock. Memory technology also diverges sharply. The RTX 4070 uses 12 GB of GDDR6X running at 1313 MHz with 21 Gbps effective speed, yielding 504.2 GB/s of bandwidth over a 192-bit bus. The GRID M60-1Q has just 1 GB of GDDR5 at 1253 MHz with 5 Gbps effective speed, producing 160.4 GB/s over a wider 256-bit bus. The GRID card's wider bus cannot compensate for its older, slower memory.

Feature support is another major gap. The RTX 4070 includes 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores, enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI workloads. The GRID M60-1Q lists no ray tracing cores and no tensor cores at all. The RTX 4070 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), while the GRID card peaks at DirectX 12 (12_1). Both support OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4, but the underlying hardware capabilities are vastly different. The RTX 4070 also uses a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, whereas the GRID card uses PCIe 3.0 x16. Display outputs also differ completely: the RTX 4070 has 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, while the GRID M60-1Q has no outputs, reflecting its intended role as a virtualized or server-side GPU.

The Verdict

The data points to one conclusion: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 is the far stronger card in every measurable category. Its 457.8% Vulkan lead is not a marginal edge; it is a generational gap. The RTX 4070's average score of 37,648 versus 31,220 for the GRID M60-1Q, combined with its higher 81st percentile ranking, confirms that it belongs to a different performance class. The GRID M60-1Q is an end-of-life product from 2015, built on Maxwell 2.0 with a 28 nm process, 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, and no ray tracing or tensor cores. Its only virtue in the database is that it still holds a 76th percentile ranking, but that is relative to a dataset that includes many older and weaker accelerators.

For anyone choosing between these two, the RTX 4070 is the only sensible pick for rendering, gaming, or general GPU compute. The GRID M60-1Q has no display outputs, so it cannot drive a monitor directly. It was designed for virtualized environments, and its 1 GB memory capacity is a hard ceiling for modern workloads. The RTX 4070 offers 12 GB of GDDR6X, modern API support, and a feature set that includes ray tracing and tensor cores. The verdict is straightforward: the RTX 4070 wins on raw performance, memory capacity, bandwidth, and features. The GRID M60-1Q's only advantage in the recorded data is its lower power draw at 225 W versus 200 W? No, that is not correct. The RTX 4070 is actually rated at 200 W, which is lower than the GRID card's 225 W. So the RTX 4070 even wins on efficiency.

The RTX 4070's launch MSRP was 599 USD, and it is now end-of-life with a successor in the GeForce 50 series. The GRID M60-1Q has no recorded launch MSRP and no listed successor. The production status for both is end-of-life, so neither is a future-proof investment. But for current performance, the choice is clear.

Specification Differences

| Specification | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 | NVIDIA GRID M60-1Q |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | Maxwell 2.0 |

| Process Node | 5 nm | 28 nm |

| Transistors | 35,800 million | 5,200 million |

| Die Size | 294 mm² | 398 mm² |

| Transistor Density | 121.8M / mm² | 13.1M / mm² |

| Base Clock | 1920 MHz | 557 MHz |

| Boost Clock | 2475 MHz | 1178 MHz |

| Memory Size | 12 GB | 1024 MB |

| Memory Type | GDDR6X | GDDR5 |

| Memory Bus Width | 192 bit | 256 bit |

| Memory Bandwidth | 504.2 GB/s | 160.4 GB/s |

| Shading Units | 5888 | 2048 |

| TMUs | 184 | 128 |

| ROPs | 64 | 64 |

| RT Cores | 46 | null |

| Tensor Cores | 184 | null |

| Pixel Rate | 158.4 GPixel/s | 75.39 GPixel/s |

| Texture Rate | 455.4 GTexel/s | 150.8 GTexel/s |

| FP32 | 29.15 TFLOPS | 4.825 TFLOPS |

| FP16 | 29.15 TFLOPS (1:1) | null |

| TDP | 200 W | 225 W |

| Power Connectors | 1x 16-pin | 1x 8-pin |

| Bus Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |

| Display Outputs | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a | No outputs |

| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | 12 (12_1) |

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 4070 wins everywhere that performance matters. In the only direct benchmark, Geekbench Vulkan, it dominates by 457.8%. Its FP32 compute of 29.15 TFLOPS dwarfs the GRID card's 4.825 TFLOPS. Its pixel rate of 158.4 GPixel/s is more than double the GRID card's 75.39 GPixel/s, and its texture rate of 455.4 GTexel/s is roughly three times the GRID card's 150.8 GTexel/s. The RTX 4070 also has 12 GB of GDDR6X memory versus 1 GB of GDDR5, making it suitable for modern game textures, large datasets, and AI inference. The 46 ray tracing cores and 184 tensor cores open workloads that the GRID card cannot attempt.

The GRID M60-1Q has no benchmark wins in the recorded data. Its only potential niche is as a low-cost virtualized GPU with a 225 W TDP and a 256-bit memory bus, though the 160.4 GB/s bandwidth is a severe constraint. It supports Vulkan 1.4 and OpenGL 4.6, matching the RTX 4070's API versions, but the hardware underneath is too limited. For any use case where the RTX 4070 can physically be installed, it is the better choice. The GRID card's lack of display outputs disqualifies it from desktop use entirely. The data shows a single winner across every test and specification category.