GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q vs Radeon R7 M440

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking843not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameMesoAD107
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date15 May 2016 (8 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 speed891 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1605 MHz
Number of transistors1,550 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)unknown35 Watt
Texture fill rate17.82128.4
Floating-point processing power0.5702 TFLOPS8.218 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2080
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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB6 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s168.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.06.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 May 2016 3 January 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm

RTX 4050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 6 years, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 600% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 M440 and GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon R7 M440
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