GeForce RTX 5050 vs RTX 4050 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking123not rated
Place by popularity52not in top-100
Power efficiency51.41no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameAD107GB207
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date3 January 2023 (1 year ago)2025

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 cores25602560
Core clock speed1455 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speed1755 MHz2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology4 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate140.4201.6
Floating-point processing power8.986 TFLOPS12.9 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8080
Tensor Cores8080
Ray Tracing Cores2020

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
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount6 GB8 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed16000 GB/s1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s224.0 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 ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.99.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 100 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has 100% lower power consumption.

RTX 5050, on the other hand, has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile and GeForce RTX 5050. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5050 is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile
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