GeForce GTX 1070: FPS benchmarks and laptop guide

The GeForce GTX 1070 was NVIDIA's 2016 Pascal flagship tier for laptops — 8GB of GDDR5 and nearly 6.5 teraflops in an era when that was desktop-class power in a portable. This guide covers its 16 benchmarked games at 1080p on the high preset and the 2 catalog models that carry it.

Where the GeForce GTX 1070 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 55.3 ranks it 101st of 341 — the top third of the table, a decade after launch. The neighbors: the Quadro RTX 4000 Max-Q (56.6), RTX 2070 Max-Q (56.4) and Apple M4 Max (56.3) above; the RTX A1000 Laptop (55.3), RTX 2050 (55.2) and Quadro P4200 Max-Q (54.8) below. Pascal's finest still rubbing shoulders with RTX-era professional cards and Apple's flagship integrated graphics is the definition of aging well.

What the chip brings

Pascal on TSMC 16nm, the GP104 die: 1920 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus with 256GB/s, 6.46 teraflops peak, full CUDA/DirectX/OpenGL/OpenCL/Vulkan support. Public benchmarks: PassMark 13513, Fire Strike 18255, compute at 47430 (Vulkan) and 47493 (OpenCL). The 8GB buffer was overkill for 2016 and is precisely why the card remains viable in 2026.

FPS in games at 1080p

At the high preset: Fortnite at 256, Valorant at 200, Counter-Strike 2 at 180, Battlefield 5 at 141, DOTA 2 at 130, Forza Horizon 4 at 129, The Witcher 3 at 120, Far Cry 5 at 106, Forza Horizon 5 at 100, the Resident Evil 4 remake at 80. The heavy tier: Cyberpunk 2077 at 70, Metro Exodus at 62. A complete, no-asterisks 1080p high-preset table — every row above 60 fps.

Laptops that carry it

Two listings, both Alienware big-chassis gaming machines of the Pascal era: the Alienware 15 R5 (2018) at $680 and Alienware 17 R4 (2017) at $669. Fleet medians: best-CPU 54.4, gaming index 81, mobility 14.5 — the graphics median equals this chip exactly. Heavy, hot and honest: these are desktop-replacement machines whose cooling systems were built for exactly this 120-150W-class silicon.

Bottom line

The GTX 1070 remains one of the smartest used-gaming buys: top-third ranking, a flawless 1080p high table and 8GB of VRAM, inside $669-680 flagships that cost three times that new. The trade-offs are weight and battery — these are plug-in machines. For pure frame-rate-per-dollar against anything in the catalog's mid-tier, this pair of Alienwares makes a compelling case.