GeForce RTX 4050 vs Radeon RX 5800

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated124
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Power efficiencyno data25.71
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 23AD107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data2023 (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 speedno data2505 MHz
Boost clock speed1735 MHz2640 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate333.1211.2
Floating-point processing power10.66 TFLOPS13.52 TFLOPS
ROPs6432
TMUs19280
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Coresno data18

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 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 12-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 amount8 GB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed14000 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s216.0 GB/s

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, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12.0 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 100 Watt

RX 5800 has a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4050, on the other hand, has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 175% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5800 and GeForce RTX 4050. We've got no test results to judge.


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