# RTX 4070 performs no better than old GTX 1080 and multiple issues with drivers **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [April 20, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-performs-no-better-than-old-gtx-1080-and-multiple-issues-with-drivers/250711 "2023-04-20T17:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/fanta/32/36647_2.png) [@Fanta](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-performs-no-better-than-old-gtx-1080-and-multiple-issues-with-drivers/250711/1 "2023-04-20T17:22:10Z")
I have installed a new RTX 4070 (MSI Ventus 2x) and am using it under Ubuntu 22.04. **Multiple benchmarks indicate performance comparable to, or worse than, my previous GTX 1080** (Unigine Superposition, glmark2, Blender). I also observed a couple unexpected things. 1. The `Software & Update`\> `Additional Drivers` tab doesn’t list any driver, it says “No additional drivers available”. 2. `lspci` lists a card, but not called RTX 4070 ```auto ⮕ lspci | grep -e VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 2786 (rev a1) ``` 1. This doesn’t return anything: ```auto ⮕ ubuntu-drivers devices ⮕ ``` 1. nvidia-smi reports an unexpected GPU name, `NVIDIA Graphics...` ## Things I have tried, but still got the same behavior as above - I have added repo `deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu/ jammy main` - I have purged the NVIDIA drivers with `sudo apt autoremove nvidia* --purge` - I have manually installed drivers ver. 525.105.17, downloading the .run file from [https://www.nvidia.co.uk](https://www.nvidia.co.uk), and then running it Note that I am not having the same issue under Win 10, on the same PC (dual-boot). Once installed the latest NVIDIA drivers for Windows, the card performs as expected under Win 10. I am attaching additional information. Please advise. Thanks, Francesco [nvidia-bug-report.log.gz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/uploads/short-url/mmlIr4reW79ezJlXa9R0fwhPNN1.gz) (54.8 KB) [nvidia-installer.log.gz](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/uploads/short-url/aBQDEjd4Jz6TswVVbPstXz26LZq.gz) (6.6 KB) [nvidia-smi.txt](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/uploads/short-url/6ypJYg2FhZsH3EdE5Vhitdh3iMv.txt) (1.7 KB) ---
**Author:** ![generix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/generix/32/16024_2.png) [@generix](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/generix)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-performs-no-better-than-old-gtx-1080-and-multiple-issues-with-drivers/250711/2 "2023-04-21T22:40:48Z")
I guess the linux driver is behind the windows driver so performance is degraded due to the 4070 being unsupported atm. Not unusual. ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/fanta/32/36647_2.png) [@Fanta](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-performs-no-better-than-old-gtx-1080-and-multiple-issues-with-drivers/250711/3 "2023-04-22T10:12:53Z")
I have just found that the drivers downloadable from the NVIDIA web site have been updated to ver. 530.41.03, and those seem to support the RTX 4070: benchmarks I run produced the expected results with them. Training of a neural net (YOLOv5) with Pythorch 2 also runs OK, running at a tad more than twice the speed that with my old GTX 1080 (holding the same hyperparameters of course). That release is indicated as new feature branch here [https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/current-graphics-driver-releases/28500](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/current-graphics-driver-releases/28500) While waiting for a production branch release on PPA, this will have to make do I guess. Drivers should be available at launch, anyway. Also see [https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-nvidia-driver-nvidia-not-updating-their-cuda-repo/249873](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-nvidia-driver-nvidia-not-updating-their-cuda-repo/249873) ---
**Author:** ![therealken](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@therealken](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/therealken)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/rtx-4070-performs-no-better-than-old-gtx-1080-and-multiple-issues-with-drivers/250711/4 "2023-04-22T14:28:45Z")
It may not be unusual, but it’s not good either. NVIDIA should provide better support for their brand new hardware, it’s not like they are a small company or anything, and it’s not like these graphics cards are cheap either. I think they can do better, updating their repos isn’t a huge ask and yet it’s clearly impacting multiple users. Edit: With that said, it does seem like finally the newer driver is making it’s way into more repos now: [https://i.imgur.com/2pgt08h.png](https://i.imgur.com/2pgt08h.png) Edit 2: Then again, it looks like it still prefers to install 530.30.02 instead of 530.41.03, that’s unfortunate: [https://i.imgur.com/p8ux9te.png](https://i.imgur.com/p8ux9te.png)