GeForce RTX 4050 vs GTX 1170
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 121 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | 41 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 26.02 |
| Architecture | no data | Ada Lovelace (2022−2024) |
| GPU code name | no data | AD107 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | no data (2024 years ago) | 2023 (1 year ago) |
Detailed specifications
General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | no data | 2560 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 2505 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 2640 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 18,900 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | no data | 5 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | no data | 100 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 211.2 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 13.52 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | no data | 32 |
| TMUs | no data | 80 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 120 |
| Ray Tracing Cores | no data | 18 |
Form factor & compatibility
Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | no data | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Width | no data | 2-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 1x 12-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | no data | GDDR6 |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 6 GB |
| Memory bus width | no data | 96 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 2250 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 216.0 GB/s |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a |
| HDMI | - | + |
API compatibility
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | no data | 12 Ultimate (12_2) |
| Shader Model | no data | 6.7 |
| OpenGL | no data | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | no data | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | 1.3 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
Comparisons with similar GPUs
We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.
