GeForce RTX 4050 vs Radeon Vega 7

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon Vega 7 with GeForce RTX 4050, including specs and performance data.

Vega 7
2021
45 Watt
7.47

RTX 4050 outperforms Vega 7 by a whopping 402% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking532124
Place by popularity1845
Power efficiency11.3825.70
ArchitectureGCN 5.1 (2018−2022)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameCezanneAD107
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date13 April 2021 (3 years ago)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 cores4482560
Core clock speed300 MHz2505 MHz
Boost clock speed1900 MHz2640 MHz
Number of transistors9,800 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate53.20211.2
Floating-point processing power1.702 TFLOPS13.52 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2880
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x8
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 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 typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared6 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared96 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data216.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA-8.9

Gaming performance

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

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD22
−400%
110−120
+400%
1440p32
−400%
160−170
+400%
4K16
−400%
80−85
+400%

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 7.47 37.51
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 45 Watt 100 Watt

Vega 7 has 122.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 4050, on the other hand, has a 402.1% higher aggregate performance score, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4050 is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon Vega 7 in performance tests.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 7 is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 4050 is a desktop one.


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