Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs GeForce RTX 4050

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared GeForce RTX 4050 with RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, including specs and performance data.

RTX 4050
2023
6 GB GDDR6, 100 Watt
37.50
+37.4%

RTX 4050 outperforms Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile by a substantial 37% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking124202
Place by popularity44not in top-100
Power efficiency25.7153.47
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameAD107AD107
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date2023 (1 year ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores25602048
Core clock speed2505 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed2640 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistors18,900 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate211.2129.6
Floating-point processing power13.52 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8064
Tensor Cores12064
Ray Tracing Cores1816

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

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 GB4 GB
Memory bus width96 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth216.0 GB/s128.0 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 Connectors1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
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 Model6.76.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.98.9

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 37.50 27.30
Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 4 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 35 Watt

RTX 4050 has a 37.4% higher aggregate performance score, and a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has 185.7% lower power consumption.

The GeForce RTX 4050 is our recommended choice as it beats the RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile in performance tests.

Be aware that GeForce RTX 4050 is a desktop card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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