GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated123
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data52.16
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRV670AD107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date26 December 2008 (15 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 cores3202560
Core clock speed669 MHz1455 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1755 MHz
Number of transistors666 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt50 Watt
Texture fill rate10.70140.4
Floating-point processing power0.4282 TFLOPS8.986 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1680
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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno 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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed396 MHz16000 GB/s
Memory bandwidth25.34 GB/s192.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.16.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 December 2008 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 55 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 50 Watt

RTX 4050 Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 500% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 1275% more advanced lithography process, and 120% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4730 OEM and GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4730 OEM is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM
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