GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs GTX 880M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking255not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.20no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameN15E-GX-A2AD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 March 2014 (10 years ago)3 January 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 cores30722560
Core clock speed954 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1605 MHz
Number of transistors2x 3540 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)206 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data128.4
Floating-point processing powerno data8.218 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data168.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA+8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2014 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 206 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 8 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 488.6% lower power consumption.

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